Haxe Roundup 720

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 15th December.
• [upcoming/events] HaxeJam 2024: Winter Jam will be starting December 22nd, check out the itch.io page. ️
• From BlueSky, David Durham has created a 3d game for the GitHub Game Off in OpenFL called Secret Sauce.
• Introducing Moonshine.dev: A New Tool for Streamlined UI Design in Haxe with Feathers UI announcement post.
• Moonshine.dev introduces a Feathers UI drag-and-drop visual designer and MXHX markup article by Josh Tynjala.
• IntelliJ Haxe plugin 1.5.12 has been released!
• 🏡Village Generator 1.6.4: crossroads and numbered houses article by Oleg Dolya.
• Some notes & feedback about the C# target update.
• Nim-like type inference or specialization question & answer.
• Use record-macros with sqlite from multiple threads question.
• Can you really make it out here as an OpenFL developer? thread.
• Looking for OpenFL work - Expert at Flash Ports thread.
• The latest release of Moonshine.dev is out!
• Wartales: the Skelmar Invasion is out now on Steam.
• 🏡Village Generator 1.6.5: small improvements article by Oleg Dolya.
• Pixel perfect drawing library released.

Devlogs

• Dune: Spice Wars Community Update #4.
• Dune: Spice Wars patch notes for 20/11/24.
• Northgard patch notes for 13/12/24, 12/12/24 and 21/11/24.
• Fraymakers 0.7.5c and 0.7.5b patch notes.
• Dune: Spice Wars patch notes for 12/12/24, 10/12/24, 04/12/24 and 26/11/24.
• Northgard: Clan of the Turtle announcement post.
• Wartales - Crossbowman: Class Overview.
• Wartales - The Skelmars: Faction Overview.
• Wartales - The Skelmar Invasion reveal & release date.
• Wartales patch notes for 1.0.39212 and 1.0.39173.
• Northgard - How to play Hafgufa.
• Northgard - Clan of the Turtle is now available.

Videos & Music

• Climbing the Hanging Gardens of Vallas video.
• Wartales: The Skelmar Invasion Trailer.
• SpaceCraft Reveal Trailer.
• 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

Git Repos

• Ceramic version 1.6.0 has been released!
• [go2hx] Add Pointer merged.

  • This uses the tooling in analyzer to create a pointer at the point of variable creation, if the variable is later called using the unary addr expr, and the value of the variable is valid, such as not a double pointer, or a value that on the haxe side will become a Ref instead of a proper Pointer.

• [tink_macro] Fix weird partial module resolution merged.
• Jeremy Fa presents the tools in the Ceramic 1.6.0 release over on Bsky.
• Reflaxe version 4.0 release goals.
• reflaxe_go git - Reflaxe Haxe to Go target. ️
• [format] Move hl.Format to format.hl.Native merged.
• [heaps] Move hl.Format into lib format/heaps merged.
• HEXE git - 2D Editor for the Heaps game engine.
• Galactify git - A spaced themed survival sandbox game made in HaxeFlixel.
• linc_process git - Haxe/hxcpp native bindings for tiny-process-library.
• h-slang git
• libcron-haxe git - Haxe bindings to the libcron c++ library.
• RuleParsers git - RuleScript addon with more parsers and printers.
• hx-http git - Haxe HTML base Server. WIP
• OpenFL-Pixellate git - OpenFL pixel perfect 2d graphics drawing library.
• Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.

Some Library Releases

• pomelo-client-hx 0.1.0
• flixel-ui 2.6.3
• flixel 5.9.0
• thenshim 1.1.2
• flixel-demos 3.2.1
• flixel-addons 3.3.0
• HaxeGJClient 6.2.0
• prefab 0.2.0
• ludi-commons 0.0.3
• linc_process 1.0.1
• rulescript 0.2.0
• ranged-number 1.0.0
• hscript 2.6.0
• hxjson5 1.0.2
• tink_macro 1.0.4
• hxvlc 1.9.4
• hx-http 1.0.0-alpha
• flixel-waveform 1.2.1
• hxWindowColorMode 0.2.0
• webgl-memory 1.0.0
• 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

• Enhance sys.net: Add IP address types, support IPv6 and more proposal.
• 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

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

• Add CfNoLookup merged.
• Clean up warning handling and add optional WUnsafeEnumEquality merged.
• Java std cleanup merged.
• [hlc] Automatic compilaton with Ninja generator draft pull request.
• Review some typeload code merged.
• Include module path in virtual file names draft pull request.
• Deprecate @:overload(function()) syntax pull request.
• Remove @:overload from Reflect.makeVarArgs merged.
• Add StringBuf.clear() pull request.
• Add a deep copy/clone functionality to Haxe serializer merged.
• Start working on haxe.Copy pull request.
• Improve make_static_call merged.
• [hl] Use HDyn instead of erroring on recursive types merged.
• [hlmem] Add type id to print and allow doing location on type ids merged.
• Replace camlp5 with ppx_parser merged.
• haxe.Serializer cleanup merged.
• [hxpp] Fixed typos merged.
• [hxb] Optimistic display requests pull request.
• [hxb] Reader: Lazy type restoring merged.
• [std/hl] Move some hl.Format into lib format/heaps merged.
• [js] Fix for Issue11475 merged.
• Lazy cleanup merged
• [ci] Simplify windows ci with native opam merged.
• Bugfix when String ends with escape sequence pull request.