Haxe Roundup 723

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 23rd of February at 18:00.
• Defenders Quest 2 Mists of Ruin has been released! Available from Steam and coming soon on GOG.
• Defender’s Quest 2 is out now article by Lars Doucet.
• VSHaxe 2.34.1 has been released! Adds support for inline values during debug sessions.
• Go2hx alpha version 0.1.0 is now released! Check out the community thread.
• HaxeFlixel 6.0.0 has been released!
• Moonshine.dev 1.2.0 has been released.
• 🏰🏡🔑Three generators have been updated article by Oleg Dolya.
• More ⛵ Sails article by Oleg Dolya.
• Can’t call Haxe function from C++ through a NDLL community question.

Videos & Music

• How to setup HeapsIO in 2025 video by Sabe.
• 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

• Volka Games are looking for a Mobile and Web frontend developer positions to work on Taonga: The Island Farm.
• Add an available job involving Haxe.

Available for work

• 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!

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

• regexp2 git - Regexp2 is a feature-rich RegExp engine for Go. It doesn’t have constant time guarantees like the built-in regexp package, but it allows backtracking and is compatible with Perl5 and .NET. Transpiled with Go2Hx.
• [fonthx] Kerning pairs might not get sorted correctly in fonts with >256 glyphs issue.
• LunarPS(LunarParticleSystem) 2.0.1 GitHub.
• [go2hx]
  • Go2hx’s current status.
  • Go2hx now has a better samples page, “now showing you the size of the JS output with and without a minifer”.
  • Basic compiler cache merged.
  • IntelliJ support merged.
  • Destructure named return type merged.
  • Goto fix for funclit merged.
  • No Go dependency pull request.

Via Haxe Discord server

• Field completion coming soon to Loreline scripts by Jeremy Fa.
• George showcases their initial work on a HaxeUI-Flixel style editor.
• Ian Harrigan showcases a HaxeUI based “Glint Analytics” platform - app stack is 100% Haxe based.
• Josh Tynjala showcases a sample project demonstrating how Haxe’s JVM target can call C functions from DLLs.
• Jeremy has Loreline language server and syntax highlighting working in a Monaco Editor.
• Jeremy has field completion plus jump to defition working in loreline scripts.
• MKI has gotten their toy language/transpiler (to C) to generate code!

Git Repos

• Loreline 0.4.0 has been released.
• VSHaxe 2.34.1 has been released.
• Go2Hx 0.1.0 has been released! ️
• Regexp2 0.1.0 has been released! ️
• haxe-rename 3.01 has been released.
• hxopus git - Opus audio decoding and playback in Haxe.
• godot-haxe git - Haxe Scripting (CPPIA) Support for Godot 4.
• HaxMin git - JavaScript obfuscator, powered by Haxe.
• HaxeON git - Haxe Object Notation.
• Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.

Closed Source

• In Renaine “the flail spins faster and lasts longer with every hit - use it to get in there and beef up your combos!”.

Via Haxe Discord server

• Travis has “made a game with HaxeFlixel for the 2025 BigMode Game Jam”, playable over on itch.io.
• Squidly is trying to make an emblem that speeds you up when you hit someone in Renaine.

Some Library Releases

• loreline 0.4.0
• hxvlc 2.0.0
• watch 0.1.0
• bake 0.9.1
• nme 6.3.149
• flixel-conrols 0.0.0
• psych-ui 1.0.3
• flixel-addons 3.3.2
• flixel 6.0.0
• flixel-ui 2.6.4
• hxopus 1.0.0
• LunarPS 2.0.1
• rename 3.0.1
• 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.
• Alexander Gordeyko is developing Pony, a Haxe open-cross-library.
• Andy Li is working around the Haxe ecosystem: CI, packaging, docs and learning materials.
• 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.

Updates from the Haxe core

Current Proposals & Discussions

• Develop constructor logic / better constructors proposal
• 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

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

• [jvm] Improve NativeOutput performance pull request.
• [jvm] Fix indexOf pull request.
• [cpp] Generate fully qualified names for global C++ classes issue.
• Implement Map<Int64> issue.
• Error reporting better call stack pull request ️
• [cppia] Extern static property getter issue.
• [display] Avoid codebase mixup in display tests pull request.
• Update windows build documentation pull request. ️
• Add methods to get Map and EReg sizes pull request.
• [cpp] Do not pass empty object list to linker pull request.
• [cppia] Exception control flow breaks with local functions in jit mode issue.
• Fix null coal assign pull request.
• [cpp] Respect jit exceptions in interp mode pull requst.
• Add tests for unnecessary tempvaring merged.
• Add tests for forwarded abstract fields not being available merged.
• Support overloading true extern constructors merged.
• Fix null coal assign pull request.
• Disallow duplicate argument name merged.
• [cpp] Gencpp Rework Mk II has been merged. ️
• Move all prebuild functionality to dune take 2 merged.
• [cpp] Marshalling Extern Types pull request. ️
• [hxcpp] Marshalling Types pull request.
• [diagnostics] Catch die calls merged.
• OCaml 5.3 compatibility on Debian & Fedora issue.
• [hlc] Split hl_init_roots to prevent out of heap in msvc pull rquest.
• Add -D compilation-timeout=42 draft pull request.
• hl.F32 equality for std.Math.NaN issue.
• [neko/ci] Switch to GitHub ARM runners pull request.
• Deal with static inits properly pull request.
• [jvm] EmptyStack exception on try/catch in static init fixed.
• Disallow some haxe.macro.Context methods on non-macro eval pull request.
• [hxcpp] Fix String::__boot when smart strings are disabled merged.
• Static extension with name _new resolving incorrectly to abstract new issue.
• Cleanup macro related conditionals merged.
• Failing hover with macros and no invalidation draft pull request.
• [hashlink] Fix F32 NaN detection with x != x merged.
• [macro] Disallow redefining modules pull request.
• Explicitely apply default type parameter pull request.
• Deal with _hx_new merged.