Haxe Roundup 707

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

• HaxeUI 1.7.0 has been released! 🌟
  • With lots of new CSS features, new styles, new components, new animations, an impressive community showcase and Ian’s plans for the 2.0 release!
  • HaxeUI is one of those projects that inspires you with each release & update.
• IntelliJ IDEA Haxe Plugin version 1.5.1 and 1.5.2 have been released!
• The latest comments from the Auto Closing proposal.
• The latest comments from the Cast Specification discussion.
• Aidan Lee’s latest update on Coroutines for Haxe.
• 🏰 Medieval Fanatasy City Generator 0.11.1: Improved Map Labels by Oleg Dolya.
• First Offical Fraymakers Workshop Contest: Unique Assists!
• Minicology is Launching on April 25th 2024!
• Minicology E-Corp Intergalactic Almanac: Procedural Generation.
• HaxeFlixel Site Update announcement.

Devlogs

• Northgard beta patch notes for 11/04/24 and 04/04/24.
• Dune: Spice Wars patch notes for 10/04/24.
• Wartales - The Tavern Opens! release date has been announced.

Videos & Music

• Armory3D Tutorial 31 Shop video.
• Armory3D Tutorial Asteroids Introduction 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.

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

• None this week.

Previews & Demos

Open Source

Community Showcase

• Tim Hely has added the FlxGameOfLife demo to HaxeFlixel’s list of demos.

Via the Haxe Discord server

• hmm-rs git by ninjamuffin99.

Git Repos

• dla-anim git - Diffusion-limited aggregation animation generator.
• Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.

Closed Source

• None this week.

Some Library Releases

• SScript 18.6.618
• flixel 5.7.2
• flixel-ui 2.6.1
• hxvlc 1.4.1
• extension-androidtools 2.0.1
• flixel-templates 2.7.0
• newgrounds 2.0.3
• refreshed_logging 0.0.2-beta
• hxnodejs 12.2.0
• haxeui-pdcurses 1.7.0
• haxeui-heaps 1.7.0
• hxWidgets 1.12.0
• haxeui-winforms 1.7.0
• haxeui-pixijs 1.7.0
• haxeui-openfl 1.7.0
• haxeui-nme 1.7.0
• haxeui-kha 1.7.0
• haxeui-flixel 1.7.0
• haxeui-hxwidgets 1.7.0
• haxeui-html5 1.7.0
• haxeui-core 1.7.0
• peote-view 1.0.0
• ase 2.0.4
• 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

• Cast Specification changes for Haxe 5 discussion.
• Add Auto Closing proposal.
• Add additional mathematical constants and functions discussion.
• 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

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

• Cleanup error positions pull request.
• Add support for binary literals merged. ⭐
  • 0b1000, 0b10_00, 0b10_00i32
• [hxb] Unbound type parameter issues draft pull request.
• [macro] Macro build order draft pull request & discussion.
• [macro] Display failing macro for Build failure errors pull request.
• [macro] Catch eval runtime failures when decoding merged.
• [haxelib] Migrate server to Haxe 4 draft pull request.
• [macro] Apply @:native for extern enum pull request.