Haxe Roundup 716

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 Events is scheduled for Sunday September 1st at 18:45.
• How to convert haxe.macro.Type to Expr? answered thread.
• Macro or feature for dynamic field access? answered thread.
• IntelliJ Haxe plugin 1.5.9 has been released.
• 🏰Medieval Fantasy City Generator 0.11.2: small improvements and bug fixes article by Oleg Dolya.
• Wartales: The Pits - Mastering Combat article.
• 🏡Village Generator 1.6.2: shading article by Oleg Dolya.

Devlogs

• Fraymakers Update 0.7.1 - Mini Bug Fixes devlog.
• Dune: Spice Wars 13/08/24 and 22/08/24 patch notes.
• Bring It On! 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.3 and 1.0.4 patch notes.
• Clumsy Cat Kitchen 1.2 - Gamemode changes & Newgrounds release update.

Videos & Music

• Bring It On! Available Now on Steam and Itch.io release trailer.
• Easy and advanced no-code actions for RPG Playground video.
• The latest Asteroids Armory3D videos:
  • Score Part 1.
  • Score Part 2.
  • Camera Shaking.
• Wartales: The Pits Trailer.
• New Cortex Renderer #1 video.
• 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

• Bring It On! 1.0.0, the Full Release, is Now Live! available on itch.io and Steam! ️
• Dead Cells: Update 35 - The End is Near is now live!
• Via the Haxe Discord server, Diced Up! by slameron has “new features from the Newgrounds version include online multiplayer, bosses, a new weapon, and more!”
• None this issue.

Previews & Demos

Open Source

• Via the Haxe Discord server, Eric "spent sometime updating PickHaxe to work with Minecraft 1.21".

Git Repos

• [json2object] Nightly Safe Macros pull request.
• [lime] Set correct paths for ndll for linuxarm and linuxarm64 on RaspberryPi pull rquest.
• warui git - A DOMkit UI library for Heaps.
• haxe-func git - Func (TON) target for Haxe that make Smart Contract development easier, made with Reflaxe.

Closed Source

• Nothing this issue.

Some Library Releases

• lcov 5.2.0
• bootstrap_bundle 3.0.2
• hxpkg 1.3.1
• electron 32.0.0
• fuse 0.1.8
• architect-js 0.0.1
• architect-core 0.0.3
• HaxeStdRevamped 1.0.0-alpha
• moonchart 0.2.3
• 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] Check for different urls when running haxelib git pull request.
• [haxelib] Show progress in git based installs pull request.
• [haxelib] Change the order of haxelib git submodule installation pull request.
• [hxb] Split hxb read timers merged.
• [hxcpp] Fix callstack retrieval in critical error handler merged.
• Implement Int128 pull request. ️