Haxe Roundup 671

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] April HaxeUp at Shiro Games has been announced for April 6th!
• [events/upcoming] The next Haxe Roundup Roundup is scheduled for Sunday 9th April over on Haxe Discord server.
• PAX East 2023! by Renaine team. There are many more photos from the expo on Twitter.
• 🏡Village Generator 1.4.0 - Village square and orchards by Oleg Dolya.
• Nuclear Blaze worldwide price adjustment.
• [devlog] New funkin blog - WEEK OF 2023/03/27: VITAMIN D EDITION.
• 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

• Smooth camera follow 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

• 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

• Poor Bunny! (made with Stencyl) by Advent has been released on Poki, App Store and Google Play.
• [pre-release] Wartales leaves Early Access and launches into 1.0 on April 12th with a huge content update!
• [pre-release] The City Streets update is coming soon for Bring It On! by Axol Studio.

Previews & Demos

Open Source

Community Previews

• A bunch of little floating Haxe logos? In my modded Minecraft world? It’s more likely than you think! After some clean-up you’ll see a release of PickHaxe 0.1.0-alpha. ️
• ThatOneFish has started developing a custom engine called the Spoopy Engine git. And implemented some command-line tools for it.
• Freestyle Engine Dev Build 006: Audio reactive elements now work with waveforms!
• Freestyle Dev Build 007: Assets can be loaded with case-insensitive names!

Git Repos

• intl.hx 0.6.0 has been released.
• daftlib-openfl git - A collection of commonly used utility classes and data structures.
• Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.

Closed Source

• Starfox update 🐸🐰🦅🦊, it’s a moai life.
• A crappy version of Doom can technically run with the HaxeFlixel framework.
• CLYDE is building out the Prison area… for Into the Necrovale.

Via the Haxe Discord server

• Level editor by ChargingTurnip is going pretty well.

Some Library Releases

• hxdefold 1.4.4
• dropecho.storygen 0.13.0
• intl 0.6.0
• hxlua 1.3.1
• haxe-nvim 1.0.0
• mc2it_theme 4.0.1
• SSIni 1.0.1
• hxgamejolt-api 1.0.3
• comma 0.1.5
• dreamengine-cli 0.1.4
• electron 23.2.0
• 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 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

1840~ updates have been made to Haxe in the last week.

• MacroApi.type_expr vs diagnostics merged.
• More strict macro API for init vs not init macros merged.
• [nullsafety] Null safety skips inline argument cast issue.
• Detect transitive casts pull request.
• [hxcpp] Migrate to PCRE2 pull request.
• [eval] Migrate to PCRE2 merged.
• [lua] Use lrexlib-pcre2 for regular expressions merged.
• [hl] Migrate to PCRE2 merged.
• Vector.fill merged.
• @:using typedef cascading signatures loop fixed.
• [lua] Fix for https requests failing immediately and updating _hx_bit to work with lua 5.4 merged.
• [macro] Add TypeTools.validateTypeParams pull request.
• [eval] Floats being treated as Ints in interp mode issue.
• [jvm] Functional interface support merged.
• Improve duplicate field range merged.
• [typer] Add define to retain meta upon typing merged.
• [lua] Hide Lua String inlines pull request.
• [neko] Fix issues with HaxeLib ndll behaviour merged.