Haxe Roundup 730

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 10th August at 18:30.
• The HaxeJam 2025: Summer Jam has started and the theme is “Taking Root” and finishes on August 10th!
• Haxe 5.0.0 preview 1 has been officially released!
• Funkin The Mobile Port is now available!
• Jack Gleeson has written about porting RectCut in Haxe.
• The Shader Language Shitshow: An Ode to Suffering article.
• @:native doesn’t work on the Lua target community question.
• IntelliJIDEA Haxe Plugin 1.7.4 has been released.
• ☠️Perilous Shores 1.7.1: improved JSON export article.
• Haxe 5 and BigInt benchmarks community post.
• Test Moonshine.dev and get $25 community post.

Devlogs

• Tenjutsu devlog 1: an Action Scene which became a Game article.
• Funkin WEEK OF 2025/07/21 - Mobile Team: Part 1 post.
• Keyreal previews an early gameplay of their next action adventure game.
• Wartales Community Update 6 is out now!
• Wartales 1.0.42195 and 1.0.42273 patch notes.
• Wartales 2025 Roadmap.
• Dune Spice Wars 09/07/2025 patch notes.
• Northgard 08/07/2025 patch notes.

Releases

• None this issue.

Videos & Music

• Catchup and watch the HaxeUp 2025 event at InnoGames on YouTube. ️
• Early gameplay of my next action-adventure game Devlog 1 by Keyreal.
• 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”.
• 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

• hxCompileU 1.5.0 has been released.
• Ceramic 2.0.2 has been released.
• Diavy git is an open-source dialogue-heavy game/engine by Sphis_Sinco.
• [go2hx]
  • Remove init macro type information merged.
  • Update on go2hx hxb compile speed improvements.
  • Null ptr deref pull request.
  • Go2Hx now supports net/textproto go library.
  • Go2Hx now supports mime go library.

Via Haxe Discord server

• MKI talks about the new language features that have arrived in MNSL.
• MKI talks about whats been added to their work on various projects Mana, Genesis, Portal and MNSL.
• SomeRanDev has released Magic Array Tools v2.0, available to all mothertruckers.
• Sinco has released Dreamland v1.0, now available on itch.io and GameBanana.
• Sinco has released Ropasci, now available on itch.io and has been submitted to the GMTK 2025 game jam.
• Teslotik has released Juil, “a simple, easy-to-use, lightweight llibrary for solving UI layouts”
• Teslotik has released Fluesend, “a multiplayer library - [which] abstracts the low-level socket API through high-level Connection and Module systems, allowing to write the same code for both client and server. Supports both sys and js/html5 targets.”

Git Repos

• A tool for optimising png tilesheets in LDtk projects and runs from HaxeLib. Available from GitHub.
• hosc git - A complete Haxe implementation of the Open Sound Control (OSC) protocol for real-time communication between audio applications and hardware.
• reflaxe.lua git - A cleaner implementation of the Lua target for Haxe.
• kotoba git - A lightweight Haxe library for XML-based language configuration and translation management.
• nTJSON git - nTJSON is a modern and extensible JSON parser and encoder written in Haxe.
• Fluesend git - A networking library for multiplayer games/applications.
• FootNote git - Haxe application used to load text files containing song lyics.
• PeoteArcade git - A simple example showing how to use the Arcade physics library with peote-view.
• hxBrainfuck git - A Brainfuck interpreter written in Haxe. Lightweight, easy to use, and extensible.
• bmath git - A math library for Haxe.
• Jlang git - A scripting language for haxeflixel entirely based on JSON files.
• ipacked git - Small utility library to pack fields into and out of integers.
• extension-webviewcore git - A Haxe/Lime extension that implements WebView on Android and iOS Devices.
• hxsudoku git - Sudoku using backtracking Implemented in the Haxe programming language.
• Juil git - Juil - Just simple to use, rich, framework agnostic, and lightweight UI Layouts.
• hxdr_libs git - A Haxe/Lime library for @:native audio decoding using dr_libs.
• jimjam git - NoSQL Database for Haxe built on SQLite.
• bake.resource git - [WIP] Automatically load files from resource folder.
• stx_json git - Easy access to Json values.
• om.msgpack git
• horse-data-extractor git - CLI utility for extracting appearance data for RDR2 horses.
• polyboolhx git - Boolean operations for Haxe – port of velipso/polybool.
• hasl git - [Incubating] Tiny algebraic schema langauge (tasl.io) for Haxe.
• Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.

Closed Source

Via Haxe Discord server

• Jeremy Fa demos a follow-up of their audio processing system with actual reverb of foot steps in game.
• Squidly shows off pixel perfect laser shaders in Renaine.

Some Library Releases

• funkin-modchart 1.2.2
• kotoba 1.0.0
• emitter 1.0.0
• hxBrainfuck 0.1.3
• heaps-coroutine 2.0.0
• im-exporter-builder 2.0.1
• flixel-modding 1.3.0
• extension-webviewcore 1.0.0
• flixel-modding 1.2.0
• hscript-typer 1.6.0
• extension-iapcore 1.0.4
• extension-haptics 1.0.4
• extension-androidtools 2.2.2
• hxdr_libs 1.0.0
• prefab 1.2.0
• jimjam 1.2.0
• ase 2.1.1
• bake 0.9.3
• flxdebug 1.2.0
• magic-array-tools 2.0.0
• haxe-jwt 1.0.0
• flixel-perspective 1.0.6
• pony 1.9.11
• ceramic 2.0.0
• flixel-waveform 2.1.2
• polyboolhx 0.0.1
• flxrhythmconductor 0.2.0
• sdm 0.3.0
• hxtomlc17 1.3.1
• haxelib 4.2.0
• deepnightLibs 1.0.86
• hx3compat 1.1.0
• hx4compat 1.0.0
• flixel-animate 1.1.0
• hxopus 2.0.0
• hxFileManager 1.3.0
• ExtendedWindowsAPI 0.0.1
• json5hx 1.0.1
• cpphelpers 1.2.0
• haxe-extension-tools 1.1.0
• macro-type-decoder 1.1.0
• localized-streams 1.1.0
• 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

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

• Support for Java Virtual Threads in jvm target suggestion.
• BigInt is slow on most targets issue.
• Fix remap vs module resolution for sub types merged.
• Allow overriding the default generation of rest arguments in js-es <= 5 pull request.
• [hxcpp]Error: non-void function ‘handle’ should return a value [-Wreturn-mismatch] issue.
• Add AtomicObject implementation merged.
• Docker Images for 4.3.7 and 5.0.0-preview.1 merged.
• Add @:forward.op for abstracts suggestion.
• BigInt improvments. Stop Lua test merged.
• Use abstract over String for Int64 on those doesn’t natively support Int64 (aka. js, as2, etc.) suggestion.
• Add StringTools.binary pull request.
• HaxeLib 4.2.0 has been released.
• Default values not always correct issue.
• Restrict BigInt tests merged.
• Modification of loop var in IntIterator doesn’t really work issue.
• Atomic object for hxcpp pull request.
• Atomic shims for sys targets issue.
• @:keep present while the class is DCEd issue.
• Non capturing local functions issue.
• [hl] Improve support for android build merged.
• Inconsistent behavior with abstract array inline functions issue.
• Seal [haxe.ds.Vector in Javascript builds to prevent unexpected resizing pull request.
• Import auto completions does not work for a library as an hxb issue.