Haxe Roundup 710

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!
• [upcoming/event] The next Haxe Roundup Roundup Discord Event is scheduled for 9th June at 18:45.
• Renaine: The Allies We Made Along The Way article.
• 🏡Village Generator 1.6.0: palisades article by Oleg Dolya.
• Catch-up with the latest detailed development updates from Aidan for the in-progress Coroutines for Haxe. ️
• Introducing snake-server, a simple local web server for Haxe article by Josh Tynjala. Also posted on community forum.
• Fraymakers: A New Survey, Character 7 Progress and Assist Content Results May 2024 Update.
• Minicology: E-Corp Intergalactic Almanac: Steam’s Open World Survival Crafting Fest article.
• Northgard: Sneak Peek - Designing the Hounds article and Hounds Game Design article.
• Northgard: Clan of the Hounds Reveal.
• Fraymakers: Unique Assists Workshop Content Results & Progress Update article.

Devlogs

• Minicology Patch 1.20: Finding Balance in the Miniverse post.

Videos & Music

• The Haxe Roundup Roundup Archive Episode 1 and Episode 2. ️
• The latest Asteroids Armory3D series video updates:
  • Modeling Plasma.
  • Plasma Spawn.
  • Plasma Init.
• 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

• None this week.

Previews & Demos

Open Source

Community Showcase

Via the Haxe Discord server

• Introducing go2hx’s new extern system! Interface with go2hx in a Haxe style with standard Haxe types.

Git Repos

• haxe-unix-sockets git - Unix sockets ported to Haxe.
• haxe-mysql git - MySQL implementation for Haxe using libffi.
• mxhx-language-server git - A language server for MXHX, which is a markup language for Haxe.
• Giuss-Maze git - A little game made for their sister’s birthday.
• HaxeUI-HTML5 gets two new properties, which “enable the app to utilize the browsers native scroll capabilities” by Ian Harrigan.
• Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.

Closed Source

• The latest Renaine GIFS!
  • Renaine desert combo 1!
  • The wrong frame size might as well just duplicate infinitely.
  • Spooky orb summoner fellow.
  • The waky exciting world of pulling switches!
  • The wackier more exciting world of switches powered entirely through GLORY!

Via the Haxe Discord server

• Trading journal/home base app made with HaxeUI & Ceramic to track trades on markets by NotBilly.
• Custom editor, with custom UI based on imgui, integrated into game engine by foreignsasquatch.

Some Library Releases

• hxsdl 0.4.2
• HxWebView 0.0.9
• echoes 1.0.0
• ase 2.1.0
• hxbitgml 1.5.0
• pbuflib 0.0.3
• hxbun 0.1.1
• snake-server 1.1.0
• flxsvg 1.0.0
• 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

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

• [core] Abstract multitype value that is generic does not generate correctly in 4.3.4 issue.