Haxe Roundup 666

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

• Citadelic is now available!
• Formatting and Checkstyle in Haxe article by EliteMasterEric.
• [devlog] Wartales Community Update #5 Out Now!
• [devlog] Renaine Kickstarter Update #43: The Illuminated Temple.
• [devlog] Week OF 2023/02/17: Shoutouts To Good Smile Edition by ninja_muffin99.
• [devlog] One Page Dungeon Generator 1.2.4: assorted new features and improvements by Oleg Dolya.
• 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

• How to install Armory 3D.
• Using Bundled scripts 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

• Candy Rush is a simple clicker game made by Armory 3D Community for a game jam.
• Chibi Ninja Shino-kun: Treasure of Demon Tower now has a release date - March 14th!
• SavanDev has released first alpha version of Latin America needs… GRAPE SODA! with the level editor.
• Via the Haxe Discord server, nondescript circle clicker by sayofthelor.

Previews & Demos

Open Source

Community Previews

• Michael Bickel is working on integration of Haxe CPPIA as a new scripting language in Godot Engine, which looks to be merged.
• RPaladin pushed another update for WIP game, Last Man Fighting. Sources are available on GitHub.
• Ian Harrigan is working on a native “Haxelib Manager” to streamline the process of releasing libraries. Using HaxeUI of course!
• Gepatto made a quick adaptation for OpenFL of the SuperFormulas example. Source code is available on GitHub.

From the Haxe Discord server

• Splufp language is a small functional programming language by DoctorSQL. It is inspired by Haskell and Lisp built for high school DGT project. It is created with Haxe and transpiles to JavaScript. ️

Git Repos

• haxe-concurrent 5.0.3 has been released.
• Heaps 1.10.0 has been released.
• Lime 8.0.1 has been released.
• OpenFL 9.2.1 has been released.
• ICU for Haxe 0.2.0 has been released.
• [haxe-language-server] Add (opt-in) haxe server communication recording pull request.
• [haxe-language-server] Greatly reduce server/invalidate request count merged.
• [ammer-core] Update master merged, with “Improved C++ compatibility for C#, Java, and Lua, added enumInt marshal type for enumeration types, added nullPtr for array types” & more.
• haxe-clink-externs git - Lua externs for the Clink API to develop custom command line completions for Clink using Haxe.
• Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.

Closed Source

• For every 100 carrots you collect in upcoming Poor Bunny, you can roll for a random new bunny skin.
• Snow Balls from WIP platformer game by MortMort.
• SnkyGames is working on detailed collision hitboxes for Starfox remake.
• New quick videos from Chibi Ninja Shino-kun:
  • Sliding on ice makes you slide longer. Wheeeeee~
  • Slippin’ and slidin’ through ice levels.

From the Haxe Discord server

• Isaac Denner got the minimap working for infinite ‘overworld’ space travel in Minicology.

Some Library Releases

• dreamengine-cli 0.1.3
• haxegen 0.1.1
• lime 8.0.1
• tink_stringly 0.6.0
• formatter 1.14.6
• tokentree 1.2.8
• json2object 3.11.0
• openfl 9.2.1
• webstorage 5.0.0
• cookies 1.0.2
• intl 0.2.0
• tink_semver 0.1.1
• heaps 1.10.0
• haxe-sshclient 0.1.0
• haxe-concurrent 5.0.3
• haxe-files 4.0.2
• haxe-nvim 0.1.2
• 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

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

• Add define to retain meta upon typing discussion.
• [hl] Type.getInstanceFields returns extra empty string in HL when inheriting interface issue.
• [lua] Add missing FileHandle.lines() function merged.