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
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1.7.0
: JSON export article - Introducing GTween for Haxe article by Josh Tynjala.
- Franco has “vibe coded [his] desired syntax for Haxe”.
Devlogs
- Cave generator
2.1.5
: Improved grass and a new style preset article. - Fraymakers CPUs Improved, More Optimizing, Fresh Palettes, and New Match Start Graphics article.
- Northgard
3.7.29.42209
,3.7.27.42134
and3.7.28.42180
patch notes and Clan of the Hippogriff3.7.26.42112
patch notes.
In case you missed it
- Haxe
4.3.7
has been released!️
- Vadym answers how to create a Set type in Haxe.
- IntelliJ Haxe plugin
1.7.2
has been released. - Coroutines current state of affairs update from Simn.
- OpenFL scale9Grid article by Josh Tynjala.
- Fraymakers: New Assist on May 22nd! + More Assists, Rollback Rework, Updated HUD and Content Priorities - May 2025 Update.
- Wartales
1.0.41402
and1.0.41340
patch notes. - Northgard: Clan of the Hippogriff reveal article.
Releases
Videos & Music
- Go2hx May 2025 compiler update by Joey.
- Idosra First Level Atmospheric and Tutorial Revisions video.
- Farever Reveal Trailer from Shiro Games.
- SpaceCraft Gameplay Overview.
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
- InnoGames is looking for a Software Developer (Full Stack) for Forge of Empires.
- 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
- Jeremy Fa previews Ceramic supporting exporting to Unity 6 using latest features.
- Ohmrun recent experiements with Reflaxe.
Via Haxe Discord server
- Reflaxe now only compiles non-cached classes.
Git Repos
- ComixU
git
- A comic book reader made with SDL2 and Haxe for the Wii U. - HxU_Lua5.1
git
- Haxe@:native
bindings for Lua5.1
to do homebrew on Wii U. - geometrize-haxe-web
git
-🎨 GeoMagic 🧠 Art Machine. - peote-ui-extra
git
- Advanced UI components for peote-ui. - peote-ui-samples
git
- Core samples for peote-ui. - tsukuru
git
- Build system for Sunaba. - hx-multianim
git
- Pixel perfect animation/UI library for Heaps. - sdm
git
- SDM is a simple Haxe dependency manager inspired by HMM and HxPKG. - hxlib-profanity-tools
git
- A Haxe library used to check and filter texts. - flxdebug
git
- A HaxeFlixel library that allow to access and change debug features. - sf2
git
- Haxe library that adds support for reading SF2 soundfont files. - harrow
git
- Harrow is a narrative library for stories that need to be told. - gtween-haxe
git
- A port of the AS3 GTween library to Haxe. - hxdc
git
- A Discord Client made with Haxe. - gov-glove
git
- A sophisticated government simulation system implemented in Haxe, featuring a rules engine, voting system, and organizational management.️
- gxinput
git
- Graphical interface for setting mouse speed with xinput. - ini.hx
git
- Cross-platform.ini
parser and writer for Haxe. - mnsl
git
- The mana shading language. [go2hx]
- Generics known issues and sub specification that will be supported discussion.
[openfl]
- Make
ThreadPool
supportDeque
again pull request.
- Make
- Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.
Closed Source
- None this issue.
Some Library Releases
- sound-manager
1.0.0
- hxtomlc17
1.3.0
- profanity-tools
1.0.0
- xa3.csv
0.3.0
- pythonscript
0.0.2
- prismcli
1.2.0
- flxdebug
1.1.1
- slog
0.0.3
- sl-windows-api
1.1.0
- cpphelpers
1.1.0
- gtween
2.2.0
- flixel-animate
1.0.0
- hxvlc
2.2.2
- sasync
0.1.5
- harrow
1.1.0
- torchsfunctions
0.7.2
- hxpkg
1.6.2
- extensions-iapcore
1.0.2
- extensions-haptics
1.0.3
- haxe-sshclient
0.1.2
- haxe-files
4.0.4
- haxe-strings
7.0.6
- 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
overenum
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
37~ updates have been made to Haxe since the last issue.
[hl]
Add local wrapper to common context merged- Add
haxe.Timer.milliseconds
merged - Let OCaml GC do its thing merged
[WIP]
Add actual positions to unbound type parameter warnings pull request.- Selective
@:generic
issue.️
- Setter not triggered with abstract issue.
- Cross-platform
Ref
type discussion. - Add
only_new
option tohaxe.macro.Context.onGenerate
pull request. - Filter
renameVars
taking more than 50 seconds issue. - Ambiguous overload, sandidates follow overload function issue.
- Eval atomics merged.
- Move private accessor check to
field_access
merged. - Allow
@:inheritDoc var field
to search for documentation in implemented interfaces pull request. [hl]
FixType.typeof(HI64)
to returnTInt
merged.[eval]
Fix weird env issue when closures trigger build macro thats ends up failing merged.- Add BitInteger type merged.
In case you missed it
- Generate ES6 arrows without
this
temp vars pull request. - Do not run deprecation checks on cached types merged.
- Avoid some capture variable wrapping in non-loops merged.
- Do not store
AtomicInt
Gc memory incpp.Pointer
merged. [hxcpp]
GC corrupts ArrayBase issue.- Error positions in
fake
files are lost when usingmessage.reporting=pretty
issue. [nullsafety]
Non-nullable check warnings pull request.[hxcpp]
Allocation question for Linux issue.- Allow disable parallel for benchmark purposes merged.
- Hashlink out of memory issue.
[hxcpp]
Int64
loses type within the array issue.- Improve GC stats tracking merged.
- Make parallelism opt-in instead of opt-out for now pull request.
- Move the logic behind
Define.get_signature
todefine.json
pull request. - Problem with interface field constraints merged.
- Assignment in condition warning pull request.
[hxcpp]
Update to Tracy0.12.0
pull request.- Reconstruct binops in return merged.
- Use parentheses when an arrow functions argument has a default value merged.
@:noCompletion
vs static extenison issue.[hl]
Compiler hang on recursive typedef issue.- Thoughts on updating HXCPP’s if/unless interpreter to use hscript parser.
You can get started using the latest features by downloading a nightly build of Haxe and see the impact the latest changes have on each target by browsing the benchmarks site. Head over to OSS Insights for more Haxe statistics.
Take it easy everyone, stay safe and see you next time. ️