Haxe Roundup 727

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 May 18th at 18:30.
• Moonshine.dev 1.4.0 has been released.
• Extend existing components in coconut question.

Devlogs

• Northgard: Winds of Fate is out now!
• Wartales: The Beat Hunt is out now!
• Northgard patch notes for Winds of Fate, 17/04/25, 18/04/25 and 24/04/25.
• Wartales patch notes 1.0.41212, 1.0.41230 and 1.0.41284.

Releases

• ACrazyTown has released canvas4d, a song accompanied by a custom visualizer made in HaxeFlixel, with source code available.
• Moonshine 1.4.0 has been released!

Videos & Music

• Go2Hx compiler update April 2025 edition. ️
• Undertale Purple Room Editor Progress Episode 1.
• Moonshine.dev: Stunning Interfaces for Any Platform video.
• 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

• Flixel rendering overhaul paid work.
• 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.

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

• DazKind shows off cortex’s UI system: “text blocks can be an illusion, every word a full-blown control/element with events, css styles, transitions & animations and mixed into the flexbox layout flow with other elements”.

Git Repos

• [go2hx]
  • New goroutine system and channel by elliot pull request.
  • Feat: Incremental cache issue.
  • Go2Hx 0.2.0 has been released!
  • Threading done on both Go and Haxe side pull request.
• haxe.compiler.dev git - A devcontainer for building Haxe from source, using devpod.
• [haxetoml] Fix compilation issues on Haxe 4+ pull request.
• mnsl git - The mana shading language.
• LazyLambda git - Functional iterators library for Haxe 4.2 and later.
• stx_equity git - Datatypes for ambiguous data.
• hx-criadx git - A WIP CRI ADX decoder written in Haxe.
• leafyEngine git - An game engine inspired by HaxeFlixel for making 2D games for the Wii U using Haxe!
• hmecs git - Super lightweight Entity Component System framework for Haxe.
• Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.

Closed Source

Via Haxe Discord server

• Jeremy has resumed work on their light mirror game made with Ceramic. It now has doors and transitions!
• Why does everything I make explode part 4.
• Battlenaut’s visual changes and new HUD coming to Power Line Rider.
• Slameron has separated the pickle from the jar to allow for palette swapping in Pickle Frickle.
• NotBilly shows off their trading journal design built with HaxeUI.

Some Library Releases

• hxtomlc17 1.0.0
• prismcli 1.0.1
• cpphelpers 1.0.0
• ludi-mind 1.4.0
• ludi-commons 0.0.5
• flixel-waveform 2.1.0
• godot-extension-api-typings 1.1.2
• portal 0.1.0
• hxvlc 2.1.4
• flixel 6.1.0
• cataclysm 1.0.0
• redislib 0.1.0
• amqp 0.1.0
• TiledFL 0.2.0
• hxgamejolt-api 1.4.0
• flixel-modding 1.1.0
• comma 0.1.7
• flixel-utilities 1.0.0
• hxbun 0.1.7
• genes 0.4.13
• colyseus 0.16.6
• deepnightLibs 1.0.85
• heaps-coroutine 0.0.2
• hxwut 1.2.0
• leafyEngine 1.0.0
• hxVorbis 1.0.0
• torchsfunctions 0.7.0
• 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.
• 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

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

• Cppia crashes with segfault / bus error issue.
• Analyzer removes remove call fixed.
• [nullsafety] Allow statics init in main pull request.
• Improve DateTools.format (padding and day of the year) pull request.
• Allow setting haxe.Exception.stack merged.
• Custom stack traces merged.
• [hxcpp] Add HXCPP_X68_64 define pull request.
• [nullsafety] Some inline api fixes merged.
• Feature Request: Support for renaming methods, classes, variables with @:rename issue.
• [hl] Use classpaths relative_path for get_relative_path pull request.
• [nullsafety] Non-nullable check warnings pull request.
• [js] haxe.Rest argument in inline new, compiler error issue.
• haxe.Json does not encode Unicode properly issue.
• Feature Request: Add @:forward.is meta to abstracts issue.
• Implicit cast from I64 to Int is deprecated has a wrong postition with inline functions issue.
• Copy cf kind when assigning object pull request.
• [hl] TObjectDecl use make_anon to build eexpr type as in jvm merged.
• Improve null safety control flow in binops merged.
• Some hxb writer parallelism problem issue.
• [lua] Fix internal loop var updates merged.
• Prefer casting rhs to lhs when unifying equality operators pull request.
• Better null safety error range for anon fields merged.
• [haxelib] Update robots.txt merged.
• [haxelib] Disallow library submissions containing .git folders merged.
• Private getters/setters pull request. ️
• [hl] Fix debug function pos in wrapper, enum, init pull request.
• [cpp] Lambda bug with Const type parameter issue.