Haxe Roundup 702

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 Discord Haxe Roundup Roundup event is this Sunday 11th at 18:30.
• IntelliJ IDEA Haxe plugin version 1.4.36 has been released.
• Enums and @:rtti community question.
• Josh Tynjala added the Working with the file system chapter to the OpenFL Developer’s Guide.
• OpenFL devlog: HashLink/C compilation article by Josh Tynjala.
• New articles from Oleg Dolya:
  • 🔑Dwellings 1.3.1: small improvements and experiments.
  • ☠️Perilous Shores 1.6.3: improved forests.

Devlogs

• Minicology Auto-saws and Auto-harvesters, Mimic Eels, Mysterious Artifacts, Crashfixes, Fire Eels and Pink zone POI updates.
• Northgard in 2024 article.
• Fraymakers Frame 1 Random Desync devlog.
• Addlemoth Dev Update: January 2024 by mauve.

Videos & Music

• Learn Haxe with HaxeFlixel video series.
• Ship of Fools trailer.
• Armory3D Lesson 25 Environment Animation video.
• 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.

Available for work

• You can hire Tim Hely, a highly experienced Haxe & HaxeFlixel developer, with 20+ years of experience!
• Alex Johansson is looking for a part time/contractor role.
• Rudy Geslin is available for freelance work.

Job listings

• None.

Bounties

• Armory3D bounties are available.
• Keep an eye on the Funkin Bounties repo for future items.
• Squidly has opened up a bounties page for HaxeFlixel features.

Product Releases

• Luc Vauvillier has shared Gadsme Connect Paris 2024 made with Jérémy Faivre using Ceramic engine. Play to try and win tickets to the Olympic Games in Paris. ️
• Into the Necrovale is live! via Clyde.
• Ship of Fools by Axol Studio made in 48 hourse for the 2024 Global Game Jam.

Previews & Demos

Open Source

Community Showcase

Via Haxe Discord server

• Heaps Editor by Nayata.

Git Repos

• canabalt-hf git - A HaxeFlixel port of CANABALT, by Adam ‘Atomic’ Saltsman, ported by Cameron ‘ninjamuffin99’ Taylor.
• kit.file git - File tools for Haxe.
• editor git - Minimal 2D editor written in Haxe Heaps.
• hltml git - HL Partial HTML emulation in Domkit.
• Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.

Closed Source

• Does this look familiar? by Gauthier Billot.
• Things are going great with Tenjutsu Project by Deepnight Games.
• Addlemoth screenshots of 3 new stages made on stream.
• 2-Hit Death in Power Line Rider by Travis Battles.
• Characters in Fantasy Sphere by Peter Achberger can hide behind trees now.
• New quick videos from Jitter Game by Syo:
  • Experiments with multi-layered music, mood changes.
  • I can’t wait to show you the full demo, but it’s still a work in progress. Hopefully it will be playable this month.
  • 1 minute to go.
• New GIFs and screenshot from Renaine:
  • But it will be with a lil…
  • The oddly named puffcop is a variant of the puffdrop that patrols left and right before dropping down on you.
  • WIP bathysphere, ignore the second aine sinking in the ground looking confused as her front facing doppelganger is inside.

Via the Haxe Discord server

• Textbox should be accurate in Undertale Purple by EyeDaleHim.
• Prexot made made a trailer for their Rhythm Magus game.

Some Library Releases

• hxWebP 0.2.0
• extension-androidtools 1.9.0
• hxgamejolt-api 1.1.1
• hxluajit 1.0.1
• wquery 1.1.0
• stdlib 3.0.0
• jsonmod 1.2.1
• injector 1.2.0
• HtmlParser 3.4.0
• SScript 10.0.618-beta
• flixel 5.6.0
• modifaxe.json 1.0.0
• proxsys 0.2.1
• hxdr_mp3 0.1.2
• hxdr_wav 0.1.2
• pony 1.9.8
• codegen 1.7.1
• classic-for 0.4.0
• torchsfunctions 0.3.2
• input2action 0.7.1
• mongomod 1.0.5
• codemirror 1.1.2
• bootstrap 1.0.7
• serializator 1.0.2
• yuidoc2haxe 1.5.6
• xpcom 1.4.1
• winapi 1.0.2
• websocket 2.0.3
• unicode 1.4.1
• undoqueue 1.0.2
• tweenjs 1.0.3
• threejs 91.0.1
• soundjs 0.6.3
• session 1.2.3
• requirejs 1.0.1
• refactor 4.3.0
• profiler 1.0.7
• preloadjs 0.6.3
• phpnatives 3.2.1
• orm 2.1.1
• ndllfinder 1.1.2
• haxescript 1.0.3
• ImageMagick 1.6.5
• jsprop 2.1.1
• jslibs 1.2.2
• jsfl 1.2.5
• jquery 1.5.3
• hxnodejs-rgbquant 1.1.3
• hant 3.7.3
• fontjs 1.0.3
• fcgi 1.1.4
• 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 Type based enums proposal.
• Additional syntax for safe navigation discussion.
• 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

176~ updates have been made to Haxe since the last issue.

• Add empty enum as haxe.Unit pull request.
• [jvm] Reflect.callMethod problem related to… I don’t know fixed.
• [jvm] Assign dynamic method only if it’s null merged.
• [jvm] Rework functional interface unification pull request.
• Hxb writer config merged.
• Exhaustiveness checks thrown off by enum abstract with only null value issue.
• Viability of hxb based custom backends? discussion.
• Always allow local function type parameters merged.
• Class type parameter in static var fixed.
• Populate cache from last context rather than hxb discussion.
• Inline constructor of abstracts fixed.
• Set --run args only when we’re actually running merged.
• [hxb] Implement shared string pools pull request.
• Split up typer context merged.
• @:structInit on forwarded abstracts breaks when using @:from another structInit type fixed.
• Remove C# and Java targets merged.
• Typedefs are not enums merged.
• Typer cleanup continued merged.
• Make ctx.pass immutable merged.
• Skip abstract impl classes when applying addGlobalMetadata merged.
• Remove 32bit Windows builds pull request.
• Delete Reflect.deleteField discussion.
• [haxe.org] Add nightlies page merged.
• Simplify type parameter typing merged.
• [macro] Remove some API from haxe.marcro.Compiler merged.
• Allow @:using with Class and Enum merged.
• Only allow Void in return types pull request.
• Default type parameters vs constraints fixed.
• Coroutine experiments but without the TFun change draft pull request.