Haxe Roundup 670

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

• [events/upcoming] The next Haxe Roundup Roundup is this Sunday 26th March at 18:30 over on Haxe Discord server.
• [events/upcoming] April HaxeUp at Shiro Games has been announced for April 6th!
• Haxe Delegates 1.0.0 Release - Faster Type-Safe Function Types. ️
• The ammer git library manual has been rewritten & released.
• Fraymakers March 2023 Backer Update.
• The HaxeFlixel showcase page has been updated.
• [devlog] Papers, Please 1.4.11 update.
• Feathers UI 1.1.0 for Haxe and OpenFL has been released!
• Ceramic 1.0.0 has been released!

  • This is a big release that adds initial support of LDtk projects as well as .ase/.aseprite files reading. It is also the occasion to reach the symbolic v1.0 version number, to say: hey, you can actually use Ceramic right now!

• 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

• Basic vehicle controller in Armory 3D.
• Get access to networking nodes in Armory 3D short.
• Using Bundled scripts in Armory 3D short.
• 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

• Backend Haxe devs wanted to make PVP deltarune fangame listing.
• Ysbryd Games is looking for HaxePunk porters for a potential future title.
• 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.

Bounties

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

Product Releases & Announcements

• Nothing this week.

From the Haxe Discord server

• Crop Rotation 0.0.5 is live! With new mechanic : Crop Set. via ZwodahS.
• Cherry On Top is a cherry-throwing arcade microgame made by Markl for Nokia jam using HaxeFlixel.
• Fish, Man is a score-chaser game with a built in leaderboard by tissproper.

Previews & Demos

Open Source

Community Previews

• HxcodecPlus dev build 005 : 32bit, 24bit, and 16bit wav file support playback is here! Previously emitting silence!!

From the Haxe Discord server

• Robert Borghese “spent way too long making custom dox theme for my documentation. Finally its ready to go!”
• FryChat git - A somewhat basic overlay for kick and twitch chat. Built with using Haxe.
• onewm git - Window manager agnostic framework to ease the configuration of window managers by Rynite.
• Justin continues to work on iterMagic git by improving “the readme with examples, try.haxe links and corrected some errors”.
• go2hx git gets a complete rewrite of its Map implementation by PXshadow.
• Check out the latest examples git repo for Bluelang by magnumsrt.

Git Repos

• intl.hx 0.5.0 has been released.
• TerrasavrStandardLibrary git - Terrasavr’s standard item library.
• nanokontrol git - Wrapper to access a korg nanokontrol device using webmidi.
• hx-webgpu-types git - Haxe WebGPU externs for JS.
• wtri git - Embeddable Haxe/sys web server.
• Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.

Closed Source

• Unicycle Legend - “an absurd platforming “sport” with 120 obstacle-filled levels” preview by Unept, made in Stencyl .

Some Library Releases

• haxe-delegates 1.0.0
• goap 0.1.0
• astar 2.1.0
• parasol 0.0.4
• intl 0.5.0
• feathersui 1.1.0
• tink_domspec 0.4.3
• 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 package alias proposal.
• 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

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

• Operator overloading with ambiguous enum fails issue.
• Display Context.error and Context.info messages in diagnostics merged.
• [eval] Fix event loop merged.
• [hxcpp] Fix SSL network error exception pull request.
• [hashlink] Update mbedtls pull request.