Haxe Roundup 714

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 Haxe Roundup Roundup Discord event is scheduled for August 4th at 18:45.
• Haxe 4.3.5 announcement post!
• Haxe IntelliJ plugin 1.5.6 has been released.
• TilBuci, a free interactive content creator made with OpenFL.
• Hxcpp: Ways to retain objects outside of Haxe? question & answers.
• Bring It On! Full Release Date has been announced!
• Renaine: Enter the Dojo article.

Devlogs

• Wartales Roadmap Update 17/07/2024.
• Northgard patch note for 18/07/2024.

Videos & Music

• The latest Asteroids Armory3D video - Player Collision.
• 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!

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 time.

Previews & Demos

Open Source

• A JSONPath evaluator for Haxe, now released on HaxeLib: jsonpath. ️

Git Repos

• OpenFL 9.3.4 has been released.
• Lime 8.1.3 has been released.
• entities2 git
• KumoUI git - KumoUI: Immediate-mode platform-agnostic UI library.
• tagg git - Textures and graffiti generator based on layer stacking.
• Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.

Closed Source

• The latest GIFs from Renaine:
  • These Spero raiders had a glitch where they could jump midair so… now it’s official, complete with fx.
  • New auto-tracking GIFs! It auto creates pixel perfect GIFs like this right from the game itself!
  • Come on let her up ._.
  • Really cool combo posted without context.

Some Library Releases

• openfl 9.3.4
• lime 8.1.3
• neon 0.0.5
• HaxeGJClient 6.1.2
• hxpkg 1.2.0
• torchsfunction 0.6.0
• jsonpath 1.0.0
• hx-delaunator 1.0.1
• siteHX 1.2.0
• 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

• Add Defer keyword proposal.
• 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

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

• Use whole import position when storing subtype import resolution data merged.
• [hl] Fix interface override function resolution merged.
• [hlc] Use uint64 instead of uint64_t for shift cast merged.
• [neko] Neko 2.4.0 has been released.
• Local static in inlined function gets optimized away with analyzer fixed.
• Switch Abstract<Null<Int>> generation differ from Null<Int> fixed,
• [hxcpp] HXCPP 4.3.49 has been released.
• [hxcpp] Struct<NativeEnum, EnumHandler> does not work in switch expression issue.