Haxe Roundup 725

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 6th April 18:30.
IntelliJ Haxe plugin 1.6.5 has been released!
Building a Golang to Haxe compiler, go2hx! over on the Golang reddit.
Renaine Weekly Update #7 - There are no secrets in this game article.
Moonshine.dev 1.3.0 has been released.
FNF: The Pit Stop 2 content update releases on March 31st!

None this week.
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.

HaxeFlixel developer needed for new fighting game “Vague Power”.
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.

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!

Jeremy is “still catching a few bugs, but [you] can now preview Loreline scripts right in vscode”.
You can now preview loreline stories within vscode from any beat declaration.
[go2hx]
- Improve IO merged.
- The golang io library is now supported and works on the hl. cpp and eval targets.
- Reflecting on 2024 goals.
- Basic benchmark support in testing pull request.
- No Go dependency update and No Go dep2 pull request.
- Simplify interopability between Haxe code and go2hx compiled Haxe code pull request.
- go-binary git.

[hxCompileU] hxSDL2 git - Haxe @:native bindings for SDL2 to do homebrew on Wii U.
[openfl/lime] Fix UTF8 conversions in hb_buffer_add_utf8 merged.
hxCompileU 1.30 has been released.
Heaps 2.1 has been released.
littleBigInt 0.1.9 has been released.
stx_tap git - Global Signal with both well typed and untyped capabilities.
stx_expect git - Composable Predicates.
stx_prim git - Unified primitive types in Haxe.
stig git - Fast data representation that is valid Json and Edn in Haxe.
airflair git - Exhaustive airfare searching from the terminal.
Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.

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.

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.

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

Haxe 4.3.7 release preparations.
[hxcpp] Allow overwriting default c++ standard for a group of files pull request.
[hxcpp] Fix mismatching type and getter return on pointer merged.
[hxcpp] Fix broken ndk version cahcing merged.
Dont avoid exception wrapping on HL/Neko/Eval targets merged.
[hlc] Fix warning truncation double to float merged.
[hscript] Do not allow arrays without comma between values merged.
[hxb] Fix dump-dependencies when compiling through server merged.
[hxcpp] Haxe generates broke C++ code if property getter doesnt exist issue.
Analyzer const propagation typing fixes merged.
Type safe reflection - add haxe.runtime.FieldHost pull request.
[hl] Add version check to maintain compatible hl 1.14 merged
[hl] Bump default hl_version to 1.15 for Haxe 5 merged.
[hxcpp] Fix never getters merged.
[hxcpp] Return null sometimes inserted after throw issue.
Serializer: Implement reset method merged.
HashLink 1.15 has been released.
[hxcpp] Prevent closing socket handle twice merged.
[ci/hl] Use OCaml 5 for all jobs merged.
[hl] Use parallet run for opt pull request.
[jvm] Make genjvm thread-safe draft pull request.
Reduce shared data in analyzer merged.
Dun -D dump in parallel merged.
Move unification stacks into unification context merged.
[hl] Implement hl_debug_break for more architectures pull request.
Make analyzer thread-safe pull request.