Haxe Roundup 717

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 Septemeber 15th at 18:45.
• ⛏️Cave Generator 2.1.3: new shape options article by Oleg Dolya
• The latest update from Aidan Lee on his work on the Async IO API.
• IntelliJ Haxe plugin 1.5.11 has been released.
• Having the Extern Blues again community thread.
• Northgard Bifrost Public Beta Launch.
• Celebrating 7 Years of updates to Northgard article.
• Via the Haxe Discord server, a little Go2Hx update.

Devlogs

• Bring It On! 1.0.5, 1.0.7 and 1.0.8 patch notes.
• Wartales 1.0.36897, 26/08/24 and 27/08/24, 29/08/24 patch notes.
• Fraymakers 0.7.2, 0.7.2a and 0.7.2b patch notes.
• Dune: Spice Wars 04/09/24 patch notes.
• Northgard public beta patch notes for week 2.

Videos & Music

• Wartales: The Pits release trailer.
• Celebrating Northgard 2024 trailer.
• Asteroids tutorial - Start Menu.
• 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.

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

• Gepatto has their “touchscreen working properly on the RaspberryPi 5 and compiled their touchtable OpenFL Haxe photoapp on it” which runs smoothly.

Git Repos

• ICU for Haxe 1.0.2 has been released.
• [haxeui] Fusion locales wonly when getting String merged.
• blok.image git - Image handling for Blok.
• ansi git - Simple library for working with ANSI.
• hxgamemode git - Haxe/Hxcpp @:native bindings for GameMode.
• Neon git - Cross-platform Application on native runtimes. Target iOS, Android, smartWatch, smartTelevision, Desktop (macOS, Windows, Linux) and also Browser, all native.
• koa-eta git - A Koa view renderer based on the Eta template engine by Cédric Belin.
• Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.

Some Library Releases

• hxdiscord_rpc 1.2.1
• hxgamemode 1.0.1
• farfadox-utils 0.2.0
• deepnightLibs 1.0.81
• hxvlc 1.8.2
• hxpkg 1.3.2
• genes 0.4.12
• torchsfunctions 0.6.2
• haxeflixel-utils 0.1.1-rc.1
• ceramic 0.4.1
• free_mobile 1.3.0
• flxsvg 1.0.2
• intl 1.0.2
• bind 0.5.3
• moonchart 0.3.0
• linc_luajit 0.0.7
• which 3.4.0
• nwjs 1.4.2
• webstorage 6.0.0
• cookies 2.0.0
• 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

• 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

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

• Implement Int128 and its numeral literal suffix pull request.
• Update to luv 0.5.13 pull request.
• [haxelib] Fix for attempting to remove a lib when dev is set pull request.
• [haxelib] Allow compiling client with hxcpp target merged.
• [php] Return type declarations issue.
• [make] Compile haxelib binary with hxcpp pull request.
• [haxelib] Allow more license types pull request.
• [typer] Monomorph vs Null<T> inference pull request.
• [haxelib] Get compiler version for run scripts lazily merged.
• [hlc] Implement automatic compilation with make and Build.xml templates pull request.
• [dox] Md5 hash diffing to skip generating unchanged files merged.
• [dox] Fix the check for minimum node version merged.
• [cppia] Cant seem toget host to call extern super functions issue.
• [display] Do not silently replace missing types with Dynamic pull request.
• [hxcpp] Better ANSI colour support detection pull request.
• [dox] File association for .mtt to .html merged.
• [hxcpp] Include arm64 cppia binary for mac pull request.
• [hxcpp] Fixed some warnings on MinGW target when compiling Socket.cpp pull request.
• [hashlink] Standardise install tree for windows cmake builds pull request.