Haxe Roundup 682

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

• HaxeFlixel Blog Posts are Back by George Kurelic.
• OpenFL 9.2.2 and Lime 8.0.2 release notes.
• Ground plans for the castles in the mist by Oleg Dolya.
• [devlog] Wartales Roadmap Update.
• [devlog] Fraymakers EA Update 0.5.11 - Super Hexagon and Reworked Custom Content Loading.
• [devlog] Minicology Major crash fixes, Turret refresh, Jelly nests update.
• [devlog] Clumsy Cat Kitchen Version 1.1 devlog - online leaderboard & new gamemodes!
• 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

• Motion Twin has announced the animated series based on Dead Cells. Dead Cells - The Animated Series Teaser Trailer.
• Reminder that Squidly does a Haxe dev stream every weekday on Twitch. 6pm EST -> 12am EST Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday. 12pm EST -> 6pm EST Thursday/Friday.
• 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.

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

• Crop Rotation by ZwodahS is participating in Steam Next Fest: June 2023 Edition.

Previews & Demos

Open Source

Community Showcase

• CPP Generate Typed Functions progress update.
• George Harpwood has open-sourced “Dojo of Death”.
• Freestyle Engine Dev by Rapper_GF_Dev:
  • Dev Build 0011 : You can add stages to the game without coding anything inside of it, including animated parts of stages!
  • Dev Build 0012 : Auto XML animations - just drag a file and drop it in the game handles the rest!
  • Dev Build 0012 : A heavily requested feature being slowly constructed!
  • Dev Build 0013 : added animations, grid snapping & movement!

Via the Haxe Discord server

• New update of IntelliJ Haxe plugin by m0rkeulv. With better performance and better HaxeLib support.

Git Repos

• [hxWidgets] Add AppName, StandardPaths.FileLayout, MessageBox, TaskBarIcon.removeIcon, some more StandardIds merged.
• hxvue3 git - Writing Vue3 with Haxe.
• om.log git
• HaxeBinaryStream git
• evnpaths git - Haxe port of env-paths.
• Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.

Closed Source

• Axol Studio are working on adding a Codex to Bring It On!
• Screen of Jitter Sandbox launcher by Syo.
• Andrej has implemented the sewer tileset for Kid Bubblegum.
• Videos of WIP GBA game by SomeRanDev:
  • Added movable player.
  • Finally got collision working.
• NEW GIFs from Renaine:
  • Finally figured out pixel perfect gameplay recording.
  • Transition/frame placeholder, but in the swordsister’s dojo you can see examples of the combos you gotta do.
  • Listen up! ⚔️

Via the Haxe Discord server

• TheMysticSword is making Clumsy Cat Kitchen - a fast-paced top-down mobile arcade game about a trio of cats running a cafe.

Some Library Releases

• logipar 0.5.0
• flixel-demos 2.9.2
• hxlua 1.6.1
• typepacker 1.3.2
• electron 25.1.0
• 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 support for Typed metadata 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

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

• Fix ?? inference and precedence merged.
• [hl/eval/cpp/neko] Fix exception stack when wrapping native exceptions draft pull request.