Haxe Roundup 712

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 event is scheduled for Sunday 7th July at 18:45.
• The HaxeJam 2024: Summer Jam results are in, with Spellbound taking 1st . With Teleport Man and Wizard Spell TD taking 2nd and 3rd place.
• ⛏️Cave Generator 2.1.1: assorted new features article by Oleg Dolya.
• IntelliJ Haxe plugin 1.5.4 has been released!
• Printersim: The Nightmare Update.
• Sabe is creating a video where he interviews members of the Haxe Discord community, DM him if you’re interested in doing an interview. ️

Devlogs

• Wartales patch notes 13/06/2024.
• Northgard patch notes 19/06/2024.

Videos & Music

• SabeDoesThing’s game devlog on the game he made for the Haxe Game Jam I Made a Puzzle Game about Words?
• Haxe in 100 Seconds parody video.
• The latest Asteroids Armory3D series video. Rocks Animation.
• The Haxe Roundup Roundup Archive Episode 4.
• Power Line Rider - Demo Trailer
• 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

• 7 Jumps is an old 2012 Flash game ported to HaxeFlixel, available on itch.io.

Previews & Demos

Open Source

Community Showcase

Git Repos

• Ceramic 1.5.0 has been released!
• HxPKG git - Haxelib local package installer, inspired by HMM.
• neon git - Cross-platform Application on native runtimes.
• NocticOS-Rewritten git - An operating system THAT ISN’T ACTUALLY an operating system.
• hxtja git - .TJA Parser in Haxe.
• haxeScry git - An implementation of the Scryfall REST API .
• HF-Fall git - Re-writing my old AS3 Flixel Fall experiment into HaxeFlixel.
• hx-eq git - Deep equality checker.
• Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.

Closed Source

Via the Haxe Discord server

• Jeremy Fa is testing more juicy jumps in their latest game.

Some Library Releases

• hxvlc 1.7.0
• electron 31.1.0
• Emitter 0.9.1
• HaxeGJClient 6.1.0
• hxScry 0.0.1-alpha
• hx-eq 0.0.1
• HaxeAL-Soft 1.2.1
• im-exporter-builder 1.0.0
• macro-type-decoder 1.0.0
• haxe-extension-tools 1.0.0
• localized-streams 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

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

• [js] Use native maps when ES6 is enabled merged.
• [ci] Hot and Localhost tests merged.
• Don’t populate cache from legacy diagnostics merged.
• [hxcpp] mbedtls3 migration pull request.
• [hxcpp] Added compiler flag to enable C++17 support merged.
• [hxcpp] Errors where function named Array returns Generic of Array issue.
• [hxcpp] CI UTest2 merged.
• [hxcpp] Add HXCPP_CPP17 to mingw, ios and android toolchains merged.
• [hxcpp] Check HXCPP_ARCH before defaulting to host arch merged.
• [diagnostics] Fix compiler failure when report mode disabled pull request.