Haxe Roundup 672

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

Community Updates

Haxe 4.3.0 has been released!

Here are the most notable features that made it into this release:

• Support defaults for type parameters <T=String> (see proposal).
• Support abstract keyword to reference the abstract (see proposal).
• Support static var at expression-level (see proposal).
• Support ?. safe navigation operator (see proposal).
• Added ?? null coalescing operator (see proposal).
• Support number separators 123_456 (see proposal).
• Support numeric literal suffixes 7i32 (see proposal).
• Add -w compiler option to configure warnings (see pull request).
• Added new error reporting modes classic, pretty or indent and logging to file -D messages-log-files=<path> (see pull request).
• Support custom metadata and defines (see pull request).

Haxe 4.3.0 also includes dozens of other additions, optimizations, improvements and bugfixes. Check out the changelog for more.

If you have any suggestions or run into any problems, absolutely open an issue on GitHub.

News and Articles

• [events/upcoming] The next Haxe Roundup Roundup is scheduled for Sunday 9th April over on Haxe Discord server.
• Armory3D 2023.04 release notes.
• Defender’s Quest 2 is re-announced. Learn more at defendersquest2.com!
• Chibi Ninja Shino-kun: Treasure of Demon Tower ~ How’s the Game? by Ando.
• Wartales Community Update #6 out now!
• [devlog] Northgard Spectator Mode: Open Beta announcement.
• [devlog] Dead Cells Update 34 “Clean Cut” is in alpha stage!
• 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 Make Adding a Video to a HaxeFlixel Project Quick and Painless video by Richard Oliver Bray.
• Armory 3D project structure video.
• Armory 3D April 2023 release overview.
• Node grouping is changing Armory 3D forever video.
• 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

• None this week.

Previews & Demos

Open Source

Community Previews

• PickHaxe, a Minecraft modding framework which currently supports Fabric 1.19, with Forge support coming soon.
• Gepatto is testing the Away3D Terrain Sample on a Raspberry Pi 4 at 640x480.

Via the Haxe Discord server

• Sébastien Benard has added a quick switcher to travel between existing worlds in LDtk.

Git Repos

• micromodhx git - Ammer wrapper around micromod git which is a music player library for MOD, S3M and XM formats.
• minecraft-book-paster git - Tool to help paste large pieces of text into Minecraft’s book & quill item.
• HaxeDiepIO git - Recreating diep.io in Haxe! An open-source alternative to the popular multiplayer game, with tank movement, shooting, upgrading, and battling.
• Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.

Closed Source

• Ando has announced that they are working on a new game Edge Monster Saga.
• The door is no longer needed in Jitter Sandbox by Syo.
• Kala is working on Tien Len, a Vietnamese card game.
• indigoUan wrote a StepMania chart parser in Haxe.
• New quick videos from Renaine:
  • Chompy actually goes after anyone that attacks you - even ranged attacks (•﹏•)
  • Going up ⬆️
  • Important Announcement on April 1st: Due to the popularity of Chompy as an assist and adorable pet, we’ve upgraded their role to Main Character!

Via the Haxe Discord server

• More editor progress by ChargingTurnip.
• Real-time RIGID BODY editing in Starfox remake by SnkyGames.

Some Library Releases

• bootstrap_bundle 2.1.2
• SScript 2.0.0
• deepnightLibs 1.0.76
• PickHaxe 0.1.1
• haxe-concurrent 5.1.1
• flxgif 1.0.1
• hxdiscord 0.5.0
• extension-kizzyrpc 1.0.1
• extension-androidtools 1.8.1
• hxgamejolt-api 1.0.4
• hxlua 1.3.2
• starling 2.7.0
• tink_core 2.1.0
• 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 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

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

• Similarly named typedefs in adjacent modules cause overlap issue.
• [null safety] Null safety inline generic function issue.
• [null safety] Fix null arg check pull request.
• Mono to Any cast error issue.
• Fix call stack positions merged.
• Switch with at least one field match accesses all the fields issue.
• [python] Fix Python vector syntax issue merged.
• [js] Generate class names when using Type.typeof on classes pull request.