Haxe Roundup 665

Welcome to the latest edition of the Haxe Roundup. Haxe is a high level, strictly typed programming language and cross-compiler.

Community Updates

News and Articles

• HaxeJam 2023: Winter Jam results are in with “The Laundry List” taking 1st place! ️
• Interested in sponsoring a developer to develope a Rust target for Haxe community thread.
• [devlog] Week OF 2023/02/10: THE FUNK AND THE FURIOUS weekly Friday Night Funkin devlog by ninja_muffin99.
• [devlog] Fraymakers EA Update v0.5.4 - Better Quick Reload, Faster Custom Content Match Start & More.
• [devlog]☠️Perilous Shores 1.5.1: vantage point and other visual features by Oleg Dolya.
• [devlog] Medals and Steam Achievements in Citadelic and Citadelic releases on February 17 by Kirill Poletaev!
• [devlog] Summer 2022 → Winter 2023 status update by player03.
• Logo has been working on a list of people in the Haxe community on open platforms such as Mastodon.
• Haxe.Social is a new unofficial Akkoma instance for Haxe developers and projects.

Videos & Music

• Dead Cells - Boss Rush mobile update announcement trailer.
• Dead Cells - Everyone is Here 2.0 mobile announcement trailer.
• New videos by Armory 3D Community:
  • Make your first game with Armory 3D.
  • Collision collections and masks explained in Armory 3D.
  • Using events in Armory 3D.
• Add a video related to Haxe.

Jobs, Bounties

• Add an available job involving Haxe.

Looking for work

• Alex Johansson is looking for a part time/contractor role.
• Rudy Geslin is available for freelance work.

Job listings

• Sean James McKenzie of Armor Games Studios is looking for a team experienced in porting Haxe games to console.
• Corrun is looking for an experienced Haxe programmer to make a deltarune engine.
• Fire Falcom are actively looking for Gaming Platform Programmers.
• Little team is looking for a Haxe developer to work on HTML5 games.

Bounties

• Keep an eye on the Funkin Bounties repo for future items.
• Armory3D bounties are available.
• Basic Platformer Pathfinding AI for HaxeFlixel $150 bounty.
• Squidly has opened up a bounties page for HaxeFlixel features.

Product Releases & Announcements

• Go! Go! PogoGirl is out NOW for all modern consoles. Go get your bounce on on your platform of choice!
• Thomas Uster released new Pakka Pets Update!
• Via the Haxe Discord server, 0.0.3 build of Crop Rotation by ZwodahS is live.

Previews & Demos

Open Source

Community Previews

• asdf plugin for HashLink asdf-hashlink git by 0b1kn00b.
• EliteMasterEric’s rewrite of hxCodec is ready for public use. It works only on Windows right now.
• Rapper GF | Freestyle Dev has shared couple of tweets on hxCodecPlus development:
  • Stress Testing : hxCodecPlus video.
  • HxcodecPlus Dev Build : 003. Integrated GPUs can now render videos utilizing cairo rendering.
• Michael Bickel setup the BunnymarkV2 sample in order to understand various runtime characteristics of HxGodot and gained some important insights and a good understanding of how to proceed with the next big step: Haxe CPPIA scripting in Godot Engine.

From the Haxe Discord server

• Spitko is working on a quick demo of the timeline widget being added to hlimgui git.
• Some programs Oskar wrote for a cpu development course at university a while ago: ️
  • microcode compiler git.
  • assembler git.
  • high-level language Compiler git.
• Total Condemn is a multiplayer sandbox game and a passion project by GlassySundew. Its source code is available on GitHub.

Git Repos

• [hxsl] Enable ability to write to arrays pull request.
• [tink_sql] Fix UNIQUE for SQLite merged.
• [hxmath] Enable in-place operators like += merged.
• [lex] Refactored LR0 code to SLR merged.
• spoopy git - A horror engine for a horror game.
• gptcli-haxe git - OpenAI GPTs cli client written in Haxe.
• intl.hx git - Provides a small subset of the International Components for Unicode (ICU), for Haxe. ️
• Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.

Closed Source

• SnkyGames is experimenting with the idea of overheating when boosting too often in their Starfox remake.
• A preview of the seaside environment for WIP platformer game by MortMort.
• New GIF and video of Chibi Ninja Shino-kun by Ando:
  • Reworked tutorial promts system to add support for keyboard input.
  • Things get cold and slippery in the third section of Chibi Ninja Shino-kun!
  • Beta build of Chibi Ninja Shino-kun is available for patrons.
• New GIFs from extended version of Tenjutsu by Sébastien Benard:
  • Kungfu + throwing weapons = more fun.
  • Tweaking the “one vs many” AI combat.

From the Haxe Discord server

• Some work on enemies for Into the Necrovale.

Some Library Releases

• flixel 5.2.2
• checkstyle 2.8.5
• formatter 1.14.5
• lex 0.13.0
• linkedlist 0.3.0
• tokentree 1.2.7
• bootstrap_bundle 2.1.1
• thrift 0.18.0
• flx-jamekit 0.1.0
• mc2it_theme 4.0.0
• haxe-nvim 0.1.1
• flxanimate 3.0.4
• intl 0.1.0
• deepnightLibs 1.0.75
• hxdefold 1.4.2
• linc_wintoast 0.1.0
• coincap 0.1.0
• Check out the most recent library releases on HaxeLib.

People & Projects to support

• Axol Studio is a small independent game development studio, making games with and contributing to HaxeFlixel.
• Funkin’ Crew is making Friday Night Funkin’, a cartoon rhythm gaming excellence.
• Patrick is creating Raspberry Pi 4 support for Haxe/Lime/OpenFL/HaxeFlixel.
• Josh Tynjala is working on Feathers UI — open source, cross-platform UI components built with OpenFL.
• Pavel Alexandrov is primarily contributing to the Heaps engine and is the creator of format-tiled library.
• Ian Harrigan is working on primarily HaxeUI, as well as hxArduino & hxWebSockets.
• Kaelan Evans is working on HxDoom, a Haxe adaption of Doom.
• Richard Oliver Bray is teaching people the things he’s learnt, like React, Typescript and Haxe.
• Alexander Gordeyko is developing Pony, a Haxe open-cross-library.
• Andy Li is working around the Haxe ecosystem: CI, packaging, docs and learning materials.
• Kevin Leung is creating open source software libraries.
• Robert Konrad, the Kha author, is creating Programming Toolkits.
• OpenFL is creating free open source software.
• HaxeUI is creating an open source user interface libraries.
• HaxeFlixel is creating an open source, cross platform 2D game engine.
• Slava Ra is creating improvements for FlashDevelop and HaxeDevelop.
• Mark Knol is working on Haxe and its documentation.
• Dan Korostelev is working on the Haxe compiler.

Updates from the Haxe core

Current Proposals & Discussions

• Add Integer data types proposal.
• Add Trailing Block Expressions proposal.
• Add Caller Tracking proposal.
• Add Traits proposal.
• Add Constructor this.arg syntax proposal.
• Add new syntax for getters & setters inspired by the C# property syntax proposal.
• Add a type for meaningless values (similar to unit type) proposal.
• Add better Overload Support proposal.
• Add Static Extension Meta Functions proposal.
• Add enum abstract over enum proposal, plus clarification.
• Add Enum abstract instances proposal.
• [RFC] Xml Dsl’s discussion.
• Add Default values for enum parameters.
• Do you have an idea to improve Haxe? Consider creating a proposal.

Core Changes

26~ updates have been made to Haxe in the last week.

• JVM Target Crash fixed.
• [hxcpp] cpp.Pointer.ofArray breaks empty Bytes comparison issue.