Haxe Roundup 715

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/events] The next Haxe Roundup Roundup Discord event is scheduled for Sunday August 18th 18:45.
• Haxe 4.3.6 has been officially released!
• New HaxeUI component explorer by Ian Harrigan! Haxe community thread. ️
• Feathers UI 1.3 - Drag and drop, Collapsible component, dispose() method and tons of bugs fixed article by Josh Tynjala.
• VsHaxe 2.32.0 has been released! Includes support for the new Json RPC diagnostics introduced in Haxe 4.3.5 and recent nightlies. ️
• The Watcher OUT NOW!! + Character 7 Update & Fraymakers at PAX West - July 2024 Progress Update.
• Ohsat Games Update 2024.

Devlogs

• Dune: Spice Wars 06/08/24 patch notes.
• Dune: Spice Wars Community Update #3 is out now.

Videos & Music

• Rooftop Ambush Scene from Level 4-2 “Cyralai” of Idosra.
• OpenFL Monthly Roundup #1 by Chris Speciale. ️
• Haxe Roundup Roundup Archive Episode 6.
• The Watcher from Slay the Spire now in Fraymakers!
• Gepatto is having fun with Away3D Haxe on a RaspberryPi 5 and a micro:bit.
• The latest Asteroids Armory3D videos:
  • Player VFX.
  • Test Score.
• 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

• None this issue.

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 issue.

Previews & Demos

Open Source

• Rock Paper Scissors demo written in FlowScript git, a programming language coded in Haxe.

Git Repos

• polymod 1.8.0 has been released.
• A JSONPatch evaluator for Haxe, now released on HaxeLib and Git: jsonpatch git. ️
• Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.

Closed Source

• Jeremy Fa has added character ladder climbing animation.
• Ddmills is reworking the damage XP kickers animation.
• GenKit: Create dangerously efficient bindings announcement post.

Some Library Releases

• hxpkg 1.2.3
• moonchart 0.2.0
• snake-server 1.2.0
• parallaxlt 0.0.5
• hxluajit 1.0.3
• extension-androidtools 2.1.1
• hxvlc 1.8.0
• tokentree 1.2.13
• feathersui 1.3.0
• highlighter 0.7.0
• markdown 1.1.3
• hx-promise-thenable 0.0.1
• polymod 1.8.0
• jsonpatch 1.0.0
• im-exporter-builder 1.0.1
• haxe-extension-tools 1.0.1
• 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

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

• [haxelib] Added ANSI colouring to haxelib help command pull request.
• [haxelib] Display current repository path when using haxelib list pull request.
• [hashlink] Fix TestInt64 merged.
• [hxcpp] Expose mbedtls xml config for external use merged.
• [jvm] Fix --java out -D jvm deprecation warning merged.
• [js] Call stack missing type names on JS in Chrome issue.
• [hxcpp] Null check interfaces merged.
• [diagnostics] Do not define display for json rpc diagnostics merged.
• [hxcpp] WinCrypt and Friends SSL implementation draft pull request.