Haxe Roundup 703

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

• The next Haxe Roundup Roundup Discord event is scheduled for Sunday 25th February 18:30.
• IntelliJ IDEA Haxe plugin version 1.4.43 has been released.
• Right Tools for iOS and Android App Development thread.
• A super-late update on Dead Cells article.
• Regarding Dead Cells termination article by Sébastien Benard.
• Dune: Spice Wars has been awarded Strategy / Simulation Game of the Year.
• 🏰Medieval Fantasy City Generator 0.10.1 by Oleg Dolya.
• ✨ Fraymakers is coming to PAX East ✨on March 21st-24th.
• It’s 2024! What’s up with Ceramic? by Jérémy Faivre.

Devlogs

• Bring It On! 0.14.6, 0.14.7 and 0.14.8 updates.
• Freestyle Engine Dev Build : 0021 : Introducing - Freestyle Mod Files (.fsm) A WIP feature that should make adding mods as easy as drag n dropping.
• BASTON is back on track! thread by Etienne.

Videos & Music

• Mechanism That Brings Disaster - v0.1 Gameplay Preview.
• Idosra Development: Comparing 2020 and 2024 video.
• Armory3D Skeleton Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 videos.
• 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

• Move and jump in 4 directions in Sides of Gravity, a new puzzle platformer by Robert Alvarez.
• Via the Haxe Discord server, TheMysticSword published a v0.1 of Mechanism That Brings Disaster game.

Previews & Demos

Open Source

Community Showcase

• Giving the HaxeFlixel tutorial a facelift with some help from Kenney’s amazing assets.

Via Haxe Discord server

• NotBilly is working on HaxeUI Ceramic backend.
• Discord GameSDK for Haxe (C++ targets). There are plans to make C, C# and maybe JS targets.
• Xerox git - A launcher/bootstrapper by Axuko.
• Michael Bickel is fiddling with one of their HxGodot Projects: Rewriting chaotic spaghetti code FPS controller using statecharts and realtime debug visualization. It’s a therapeutic experience. 😛

Git Repos

• [reflaxe.CSharp] Haxe AST -> C# AST -> C# Printer discussion.
• [reflaxe.dart] reflaxe.dart - WIP Dart-lang reflaxe generator.
• hxraylib git - WIP Haxe/hxcpp @:native bindings for Raylib.
• nokiafreeze git - Entry for Nokia Jam 6, theme ‘Freeze’.
• mxhx-runtime-component git - Parses MXHX components from strings at run-time.
• mxhx-rtti-resolver git - Resolves symbols in MXHX documents using Haxe Runtime Type Information (RTTI).
• mxhx-source-resolver git - Resolves symbols in MXHX documents using Haxe source code parsed by haxeparser.
• mxhx-symbols git - Defines types for symbols in MXHX documents — such as classes, interfaces, abstracts, enums, etc.
• haxe-amqp git - AMQP 0-9-1 library and client for Haxe.
• Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.

Closed Source

• Nothing this week…

Via the Haxe Discord server

• Electr0Gunner is working on a fork of Cheese-Curd’s Pvz Haxe Edition.

Some Library Releases

• jsprop 2.2.0
• HxWebView 0.0.5
• hxvlc 1.3.0
• easeljs 3.0.1
• threejs-addons 161.0.2
• threejs 161.0.2
• stdlib 3.1.1
• hxnodejs-re-htmlparser 3.4.0
• yuidoc2haxe 1.5.7
• tweenjs 2.0.0
• soundjs 1.0.0
• refactor 4.4.1
• preloadjs 1.0.0
• fonthx 0.0.8
• SScript 10.1.618
• hxnodejs-wquery 1.1.1
• hant 3.8.0
• wquery 1.1.1
• undoqueue 1.1.0
• datatools 2.0.0
• codegen 2.1.0
• test-adapter 2.0.7
• HxWebView 0.0.4
• formatter 1.16.0
• flixel 5.6.2
• tokentree 1.2.11
• 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

• Additional syntax for safe navigation discussion.
• Add support for Typed metadata proposal.
• Add support for Extension of Abstracts proposal.
• Add package alias proposal.
• Add Integer data types proposal.
• Add Trailing Block Expressions proposal.
• Add Caller Tracking 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

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

• [hxb] Add OFD and OBD chunks merged.
• Make String.indexOf actually conform to some specification merged.
• [hl] Use hl.NativeArray for Vector pull request.
• [hl] hlopt rework try-catch control flow pull request.
• Coroutine updates and example transofrmation comments.
• Null coalescing bind does nothing issue.
• Enum abstract not checked issue.
• [hxcpp] Fix Android for large builds pull request.
• [cpp] Generate Sourcemap style file draft pull request & discussion.
• The latest comments and discussions on developing coroutines.
• [bugfix] Haxe 4.3.4 draft pull request.
• [macro] Build order vs inheritance merged.
• Unify help messages handling merged.
• Pretty errors as default message reporting draft pull request.
• Null safety hole with array access issue.
• @:structInit ambiguity when @:from between abstract forwarded types issue.