Haxe Roundup 709

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 HaxeJam 2024: Summer Jam is scheduled for June 9th till June 15th!
• 🏡Village Generator 1.5.4: spotlight and improved roads article by Oleg Dolya.

Devlogs

• Minicology 1.13 patch notes: QoL, Farming and… Ladders!

Videos & Music

• Bring It On! Coming Soon Trailer.
• The latest Asteroids Armory3D series video updates:
  • Test Cursor Rotation
  • Player Rotation
  • Game Init
  • Player Opacity
• 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

• Clockwork Acorn is looking for an experienced Haxe developer to port their game Jetstream to iOS and Android.

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

• Increpare has released Tetrarch made with HaxeFlixel.

Previews & Demos

Open Source

Community Showcase

Via the Haxe Discord server

• Discord user plankdev is developing a game framework called lemons. Updates can be found of the project’s forum post.

Git Repos

• Implement almost full support for MacOS for reflaxe.CPP merged.
• hxbigio git - Small library for dealing with large Buffers of Int64 size.
• crossbyte git - CrossByte: A versatile cross-platform framework offering essential tools and utilities for streamlined application development across diverse environments.
• hxgemini-api git - Haxe functions to use the Gemini AI Integration.
• tetratch-fouromino git - HTML5 game made with HaxeFlixel.
• hx-pbuflib git - Adds extensive buffer features with structuring and prototyping support via abstractions for simple code writing.
• aedifex git - Cross-platform command-line build tool.
• Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.

Closed Source

• The blowing mechanic has been added back to the Jitter Game.
• The wacky exciting world of pulling switches in Renaine.

Some Library Releases

• hxal 1.1.1
• hxsdl 0.4.1
• flixel-addons 3.2.3
• hxdefold 2.0.1
• pbuflib 0.0.2
• hxvlc 1.5.3
• SScript 21.0.0
• hx-sync-thenable 0.0.1
• hx-thenable 1.0.0
• torchsfunctions 0.5.0
• bind 0.5.2
• httpmore 0.1.0
• extension-androidtools 2.0.3
• refreshed_logging 0.1.0
• HxBigIO 0.0.3
• datachannel 1.0.2
• flxgif 1.0.3
• hxUnicode 0.0.2
• 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

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

• [struct-init] Ignore non-physical fields merged.
• [ci] Make mac univeral builds more universal pull request.
• [hxb] Ignore invalidations during display requests merged.
• Don’t bind foreign type paramaters in definition mode merged.
• [hxb] Signature dependencies part 2 merged.
• Valid redefinition work merged.
• [cpp] Fix abstract class functions with default values merged.
• [macro] Reification pattern matching regression issue.
• Fix -D dump-dependencies pull request.
• [hxb] Add define to opt out of hxb cache pull request.
• [macro] Don’t choke on namePos for reification pattern matching merged.