Haxe Roundup 673

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 is here! Here’s what you need to know article by EliteMasterEric.
New interop features with Hxcpp and Haxe 4.3.0 article by Aidan Lee.
Help creating a macro to forward operator overloads is partially solved.
A guide that explains how to use Filters in Ceramic by Jérémy Faivre.
Re-announcing Defender’s Quest 2 (Art & Trailer Reveal!) article by Lars Doucet.
⛏️Cave/Glade Generator 2.0.2: Water by Oleg Dolya.
PickHaxe for Minecraft post by EliteMasterEric, with some screen shots posted over on the Haxe Discord server targeting Fabric or Forge.
Wartales 1.0 is out now!
[devlog] Dead Cells new alpha patch released.
[devlog] New funkin blog - Week Of 2023/04/07: GOOD FRIDAY.
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.

Welcome to the HaxeUp 2023 at Shiro Games - Simon Krajewski & Nicolas Cannasse video.
Haxe Spring Report by Simon Krajewski video.
Performance Haxe in “Dune: Spice Wars” by Tom Rethaller video.
Creating Indie Games: An Overview of the Shiro Tech Stack by Nicolas Cannasse video.
Wartales Official Release Trailer.
All types of movement explained in Armory 3D video.
All physics movement explained in Armory 3D video.
Add a video related to Haxe.

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.

Bring It On! 0.8 City Streets has been released, plus 0.8.1 & 0.8.4 which helps with performance & bug fixing.

And Jérémy Faivre has also added 2 new samples: Gaussian Blur and Immediate GUI.
Hugh Sanderson is moving NME CI/CD to GitHub actions.

Starfox updates 🐸🐰🦅🦊:
- Automated hitbox geometry via model data for pixel-perfect collisions.
- Early days of creating the powerups, testing damaged wings, boost, and brake.

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.

Add support for Extension of Abstracts proposal.
Add Shading proposal with alt macro solution.
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.

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

[cpp] Replace <::cpp::Int64> with < ::cpp::Int64> to fix template errors pull request.
[cpp] Reenable objc extern tests merged.
[nullsafety] Null-safe Type.getClass merged.
[nullsafety] Detect nulls in structs pull request.
Macro static local var not working fixed.
[neko] Optimise BytesBuffer length field pull request.
[neko] Optimise BytesBuffer length field merged.
[haxelib] Lose hx3compat dependency issue.
[lua] Share metatables with other class instances draft pull request.
[lua] Emit class name even if not required merged.
[hxcpp] Capture registers when compiling to Linux fixed.
[hxcpp] Avoid entering GCFreeZone twice merged.
[hxcpp] Support Android NDKs higher than 21 merged.
[hxcpp] Add -std=c99 when compiling pcre2 sources merged.
[jvm] Overloaded field of similar signature was already declared (on extern inline) fixed.
[macro] Refactor macroContext.ml merged.
Add “Custom” target draft pull request.