Haxe Roundup 674

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 event over on Discord is scheduled for Sunday 23rd April 18:30.
• What’s next for Northgard?
• Perilous Icons new generator by Oleg Dolya.
• Three new guides for Ceramic about Scenes, Observables and State Machines by Jérémy Faivre.
• Josh Tynjala is going to blog about some of the new features coming to OpenFL, with devlog #1 about Weak event listeners.
• [devlog] Dead Cells Update 34 - Clean Cut moves into beta.
• [devlog] New funkin blog - Week of 2023/04/14: Shoutouts da greenhouse 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

• Supercharge Your Code with Haxe 4.3.0's Incredible New Features video by Richard Oliver Bray. ️
• Learn the Blue programming language - Introduction and Methods video.
• Building a simple game in Armory 3D - Beginners tutorial part 1.
• Game Career Seminar: Micro-Postmortems: ‘Casual Birder’, ‘ValiDate’, and ‘Heck Deck’ where torcado talked about Heck Deck’s development and turned it into a pseudo-lecture on how to make interesting games. ️
• 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

• Via the Haxe Discord server, Prexot submitted and published new version of Rhythm Magus.

Previews & Demos

Open Source

Community Previews

• Freestyle Engine Updates by Rapper GF | Freestyle Dev:
  • Freestyle Engine Dev Build : 008! Videos are now playable as instrumental tracks.
  • The minimum specs for the engine are an i3 core duo @ 2.1GHZ or equivalent.

Via the Haxe Discord server

• m0rkeulv is trying to bring some new life to the old Haxe IntelliJ plugin. Try the latest beta. Note: This plugin has not been worked on for the last 2.5 years or so, so support for the more recent Haxe features are still missing, but will hopefully be added in the not too distant future.

Git Repos

• Ceramic 1.1.1 minor release.
• nme 6.3.26 has been released.
• sfxr-hx git - Sfxr in pure Haxe.
• haxe-functional git - Tools for writing Haxe code in the functional programming paradigm.
• reflaxe.CSharp git - A remake of the Haxe/C# target written entirely within Haxe using Reflaxe.
• Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.

Closed Source

• A preview of the virtual keyboard by Cornell Daly.
• New quick video from Renaine - you guys thought I was joking.
• A little sneak peek at the upcoming tutorials menu from Dune: Spice Wars.
• New Starfox 🐸🐰🦅🦊 remake updates by SnkyGames:
  • Venom wall.
  • Solved i-frames, electric guitar time!
  • Mesh deformation,
  • Arwing to Walker transform.

Some Library Releases

• flixel-window 1.1.0-beta
• hxopenal 1.0.0
• intl 0.9.0
• deepnightLibs 1.0.77
• hxdiscord_rpc 1.0.5
• hxwren 1.0.1
• pirhana 1.1.25
• hxlua 1.4.0
• vision 1.3.1
• free_mobile 1.2.0
• jsasync 1.3.1
• 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 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.

Core Changes

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

• [jvm] Exception attribute is broken fixed.
• Support deprecation for defines merged.
• Rework error handling merged.
• [haxelib] Define lib.name for Haxe v5.
• Default value expressions (default operator and/or literal) request.
• Exponential increase in generated code size due to array matching issue.
• Possible null coalescing operator priority error fixed.
• Namespace message reporting defines for 4.3 bugfix merged.
• Rework extractors merged.
• [macro] Custom target merged with config sample code using Compiler.setPlatformConfiguration.
• Typing order error with generic and specific import order issue.
• [cpp] Generate Typed Functions draft pull request with micro benchmark results. ️
• [nullsafety] Fix null-safety locals after if/while pull request.
• Allow boolean operators in patterns pull request.
• Should default type parameters abide by imports? issue.
• Turn TSwitch into a record merged.
• [tests] Compilation server vs defineModule/defineType draft pull request. ️
• [macro] Add TypeTools.toBaseType() merged.
• Rework module resolution draft pull request.