Haxe Roundup 676

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

• Official Haxe 4.3.1 announcement. Available to download now from GitHub and Haxe.org!
• Predictable constructors in Haxe article by 0b1kn00b. ️
• Armory3D May 2023 release notes.
• 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

• Reacting to GameFromScratch’s thoughts on HaxeFlixel 5.0.0 video by Richard Oliver Bray.
• No More Lost Progress: Save Games in RPG Playground video.
• Northgard | Trials of Odin Official trailer.
• 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

• Northgard - Trials of Odin Update Out Now!
• Dead Cells - The 34th Dead Cells update “Clean Cut” is now live!

Previews & Demos

LD53 “Delivery”

• Why Deliver Y?, a vaguely noir puzzle game.
• FedUp - A Flying Delivery game by Jeff Ward.
• Dressed Delivery - Three women embark on a journey to find a place in life.
• Delivering Parcelman - Your good friend Travelling Salesman has introduce you to a Parcel delivery job. Will you do your job well or will you get fired?
• Flipping Finches - You are a finch known as the flip master. You always flip when turning in the air. You need to deliver a parcel. Hopefully you can deliver it intact!
• Haul and Pray - “I am only accepted as long as I am useful. If I don’t earn my keep, if I don’t constantly prove my worth, I might as well just disappear. And wouldn’t that be better for everyone?”
• B.H.M.D.S - Black Hole Manipulation Delivery System. A simple game about manipulating gravity to get your packets flying to the right places.

Open Source

Community Previews

Git Repos

• LDtk 1.3.1 and 1.3.2 have been released.
• haxe-engineio git - A Haxe Engine.io implementation.
• haxe-socketio git - A Haxe Socket.io implementation.
• stx_parse_ini git - Ini file parser in stx_parse.
• Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.

Some Library Releases

• ldtk-haxe-api 1.3.2-rc.1
• tink_hxx 0.25.1
• flxgif 1.0.2
• tink_syntaxhub 0.6.1
• colyseus-websocket 1.0.12
• haxelib 4.1.0
• urals-renderer-web-js 0.1.2
• urals-renderer-web 0.2.3
• neutralinojs 1.0.0
• tostring 0.2.0
• haxe-nvim 1.1.1
• res 0.1.1-alpha
• nwjs 1.4.0
• hxwren 1.1.1
• hxlua 1.5.1
• minecraft-api 0.3.82-alpha
• hxdiscord_rpc 1.1.0
• TeaScript 1.0.0
• urals-storage 0.3.1
• urals-widget-web 0.1.1
• urals-id-renderer 0.0.1
• parcl 0.1.1
• bootstrap_bundle 2.1.3
• 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 support for a new throws statement proposal.
• 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

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

• Hxcpp 4.3.7 has been released.
• Allow non constant “inline” var init with -D no-inline merged.
• Call typing vs. expected enums issue.
• [hl] -dce no breaks hl.I64 issue.
• [eval] Local static var - Instance constructor not found: haxe.ds._Map.Map_Impl_ issue.
• [macro] Possible bug in @:autoBuild meta order issue.
• [macro] EFieldKind messes with macro pattern matching issue.
• [macro] LSP/macro type reification: Defining 0-ary function as a type parameter with a reified return type messes up LSP outline issue.