Haxe Roundup 721

Welcome to the latest edition of the Haxe Roundup. Haxe is a high level, strictly typed programming language and cross-compiler.

Community Updates

[upcoming/events] The next Haxe Roundup Roundup Discord event is scheduled for Sunday 12th Jan at 18:00.
VSHaxe 2.33.0 has been released! Adds 8 new refactoring options and refines the rename feature.
Check out all 17 entries submitted to the HaxeJam 2024: Winter Jam. Read Logo’s winners announcement over on Discord.
OpenFL Devlog: The importance of text metrics article by Josh Tynjala. ️
Celebrate 10 years of Axol Studio article.
Equality check compatible with custom equals() method community question.
OpenFL 9.4.1 and Lime 8.2.2 have been released!
A working Heaps & HaxeUI example.
SpaceCraft is aiming for the gap between Starfield, Satisfactory and Eve Online Rock Paper Shotgun article.

Wartales 1.0.39291 patch notes.
Fraymakers 0.7.6 patch notes.
Northgard 19/12/24 and 17/12/24 patch notes.
Fraymakers January 2025 Dev Update - New Assist on January 15th, Win Screen Sneak Peek and more!

2025 Axolversary First Friday Game Dev Stream.
Idosra Victory Scrolling Test video.
Climbing the Hanging Gardens of Vallas video.
Shiro Games 2024 Yearly Recap.
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.

Joey (PXshadow) creator of go2hx git is available for work.
You can hire Tim Hely, a highly experienced Haxe & HaxeFlixel developer, with 20+ years of experience!

Via the Haxe Discord server, Jeremy Fa showcasing Loreline runtime in action on the cli. Also check out the 0.2.0 release demo video. Make sure to also get the vscode extension.

Work in progress Go target using reflaxe git.
haxe-deps-viewer git - Haxe dependencies viewer.
- Check out the hosted app. Also head over to Discord for progress updates and demos.
s2D git - 2D game engine written with Kha.
openfl-android-adaptive-icon-sample git - A sample OpenFL project that adds an adaptive icon for Android.
haxe-simple-lcov git - A simple LCOV parser written in Haxe.
fancy git - An UI lib built on top of alayout, flgl and other stuff.
hxmaker git - A unified game engine written in Haxe that can run on any game engine.
hxmaker-openfl git - Use hxmaker in openfl render.
haxed git - Experimental Haxe-based thing.
Logger git - Simplify the categorization and prioritization of logs, errors and assertions.
henum git - Tiny repository of improvements for the Haxe enum.
RSL git - Random Scripting Language.
AWDRender git - A scene loader & camera controller for AwayBuilder (AWD) files.
haxe-rename 3.0.0 has been released. ️
haxe-concurrent 5.1.4 has been released.
haxe-instrument 1.3.1 has been released.
[openfl] Allow OpenFL to be used in cppia scripts merged.
[openfl] Bump Android SDK to 34 pull request.
[reflaxe] EIE fix short-circuiting issue.
[love-haxe] Fix for newer version of Love2D pull request.
[haxe-language-server] Nullable range and location draft pull request.
Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.

Tyler “messing with ascii stuff, tried out a little RPG merchant sim”.
Daskind showcases their cortex engine. With an updated video with animation mixing & shaders.

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.

Develop constructor logic / better constructors proposal by 0b1kn00b.
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.

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

Add haxe.runtime.Copy.
[js] Regression with null safety diagnostics issue.
[js] Clean up ES5 implementation of StringMap.keys() merged.
Fix JsonPrinter Int64 type pull request.
[jvm] Bad type on operand stack when spreading an array for Rest<T> generic arg issue.
Fix enclosing positions draft pull request.
[cppia] Wrong parentheses priority for Int32 issue.
[cpp] HXCPP_GC_MOVING in combination with HXCPP_ALIGN_ALLOC issue.
[cpp] EReg is not thread safe issue.
[null-safety] ?. null safety fails with match method on enums issue.
[lua] Wrong left shift with -1 fixed.
Add MDynamic to late-bind monomorphs to Dynamic merged.
Remove TFor pull request.
[ci] Remove remaining references to camlp5 merged.
Unconditionally use sys/wait.h on Unix-like systems merged.
[hl] Respect hl-legacy32 for I64 arrays pull request.
[hlc] Add jumbo build for vs template pull request.
[php] Codegen when using double byte characters in string issue.
PosInfos hover error issue.
Fix Xml cased escape sequences pull request
[display] Range is nullable draft pull request.