Haxe Roundup 708

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

• [upcoming/event] The next Discord Haxe Roundup Roundup is scheduled for Sunday May 12th 18:45.
• [upcoming/event] The next HaxeJam 2024: Summer Jam is scheduled for June 9th till June 15th!
• Minicology: A small thank you!
• Minicology E-Corp Intergalactic Almanac: Celebrating Farming Fest!
• Minicology: FAQ - 10 Things Every Space Traveler Should Know! (And 6 More).
• Northgard Claws & Jaws is Out Now!
• Wartales: The Tavern Opens is Out Now!
• Minicology 1.0.4: The First Big Update.
• 🍺Tiny Pubs 1.3.0: Universal Pub Profile by Oleg Dolya.

Devlogs

• Dune: Spice Wars patch notes for 29/04/24 and 23/04/24.
• Minicology patch notes for 1.01 and 1.03 snapshot.
• Northgard Claw & Jaws hotfix for 26/04/24 and patch notes for 25/04/24 and 30/04/24`.
• Wartales patch notes for 26/04/24 and 19/04/24.
• Fraymakers patch notes for 0.6.9 - New Autolink Angle, Bug Fixes, and Quality of Life.

Videos & Music

• The latest Asteroids Armory3D series video updates:
  • Create Scene
  • First Material
  • Add Player
  • Player Base
  • Player Input
  • Clean
  • Test Rotation
• 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

• Funkin Crew has released the “WeekEnd 1” update to Friday Night Funkin’.
• SabeDoesThings just finished making his second game in Heaps.io Pewzerk.

Previews & Demos

Open Source

Community Showcase

• Spaceship for Haxe code. Installs the Haxe compiler and NekoVM interpreter anywhere. bertha git.
• Ian Harrigan previews HaxeUI’s new “Spinner” component working on all backends!

Via the Haxe Discord server

• EyeDaleHim is developing a 2D game framework in Haxe called Gaius. Dev updates are posted in the Haxe Discord Server.

Git Repos

• [format] Add sourcemap reader merged.
• [heaps] Add deaps_disable_res_completion compilation flag pull request.
• [lime] System Impl spinlock and usleep methods for sys targets pull request.
• haxe-cpp-extern-example git - A simple example CPP extern for Windows.
• hashlink-extension-example git - This repo contains an example HL extension for Windows.
• canvas2d git - The core backend library used to power Vortex. The library is designed to abstract GL rendering into easier to understand classes/functions.
• hotdish git - Build tools for Haxe.
• bucket git - Elegant compiled general-purpose programming language.
• gaius-2d git - Gaius is a Haxe 2D game framework. This project is more of a “for-fun” project. Which means that anything here is made on a best-effort basis.
• kit.macro git - Macro tools for Haxe.
• Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.

Closed Source

• Fun with bouncing shrooms! in Renaine.
• Jeremy Fa is “once again creating a visual editor for Ceramic”.

Some Library Releases

• haxe-tester 1.0.0
• peote-view 1.0.1
• hxUnicode 0.0.1
• flixel-demos 3.2.0
• hxvlc 1.4.3
• hx-thenable 0.0.1
• SScript 20.8.618
• hxdefold 2.0.0
• hxsdl 0.4.0
• hxdr_wav 0.1.3
• hxdr_mp3 0.1.3
• torchsfunctions 0.4.0
• smartfox-haxe-client 1.1.0
• hxgamejolt-api 1.2.0
• hxal 1.1.0
• gafplayer-starling 2.0.1
• HxWebView 0.0.7
• bake 0.6.2
• flixel 5.8.0
• bind 0.5.0
• 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

• 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

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

• Add memory print that support details for macro interpreter merged.
• [hl] Add -D hl_w_null_compare merged.
• [eval] Macro interpreter memory leak, up to 24GB RAM usage observed discussion.
• [tests] Add more Null op tests pull request.
• [hxcpp] @:generic ignores @:unreflective fixed.
• [hashlink] Fix multiple instances of undefined behaviour and crashes when using ubsan pull request.
• [ci] Switch to GitHub CI pull request.
• [hxb] Load less dependencies during display requests pull request.
• [hxb] Only enable timers with -D hxb-times merged.