Haxe Roundup 718

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 Discord Haxe Roundup Roundup event is scheduled for Sunday 29th September at 19:00.
• Friday Night Funkin’ has released a new update, featuring a new playable character with all new remixes! Play on Newgrounds.
• 🔑Dwellings 1.3.2: permalinks and multi-floor export article by Oleg Dolya.
• The latest update from Aidan Lee on their progress with the Async IO API.
• Northgard: Road to Bifröst - A new adventure.
• Via the Haxe Discord server, Join Chris and others in the Haxe community entry in the Ludum Dare 56 Collab channel.

Devlogs

• Bring It On! 1.0.9, 1.0.10 and 1.0.11 patch notes.
• Northgard Beta patch notes for week 3 and week 4.

Videos & Music

• 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!

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.

Previews & Demos

Open Source

• Friday Night Funkin’ has published the source code for its latest update! Check it out on GitHub!

Git Repos

• haxebt git - Behavior trees lib for Haxe.
• hxgitapi git - A HaxeLib to interact with the GitHub API.
• jume git - 2D Web Game Engine written in Haxe.
• haxe-sql-parser git - SQL lexer/parser for Haxe core.
• hxserial_api git - Haxe/Hxcpp @:native integration for managing serial connections and devices.
• hxbutt git - Buttplug.IO support for the Haxe language.
• Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.

Closed Source

Via the Haxe Discord server

• Jeremy Fa has done "work on ladder animations in their game " made with Ceramic.
• Travis shows monkey cartwheel action!

Some Library Releases

• belin_core 1.0.0
• sqids 0.1.0
• hxserial_api 1.0.0
• hxvlc 1.8.5
• sl-windows-api 1.0.2
• formatter 1.16.1
• tokentree 1.2.14
• hx-sql-parser 0.0.1
• hxWindowsColorMode 0.1.0
• moxiesfunctions 0.1.0
• rulescript 0.1.1
• hxdiscord_rpc 1.2.4
• sl-windows-api 1.0.0
• which 3.5.0
• xa3.csv 0.2.0
• hscript-iris 1.1.0
• neutranlinojs 3.0.0
• akismet 3.0.0
• 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

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

• [cpp] Add Tracy profiler extern to std pull request.
• [hxcpp] Add support for Tracy profiler pull request.
• [php] Add externs for some POSIX functions merged.
• [tests] Enable hlc tests on Windows and Mac pull request.
• Consider toString static extension in string coercion issue.
• Non-Issue: How to get Haxe compiling and running on FreeBSD issue.
• [cpp] Absolute paths with absolute-path merged.
• Inconsistent interface type inference for getters/setters issue.
• [cppia] Generate scriptable functions for overriden functions merged.
• [haxe5] Invalid_argument("List.iter2") at unknown position issue.
• Apply @:haxe.warning rules to cached warnings too pull request.
• Adds a new --std-path argument to set standard libary path pull request.