Haxe Roundup 687

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

• [events/upcoming] The next Haxe Roundup Roundup Discord event is scheduled for July 23rd.
• [events/upcoming] The next weeklong HaxeJam 2023: Summer Jam is scheduled to start on August 6th hosted by Logo. Remember to join the Discord event.
• Stats update from Juriën Meerlo about Gravity Golfing release on iOS “has over 10000 downloads now! The top 1000 players in Game Center have completed 50 levels or more”.
• Renaine Kickstarter Update #45: Bitsummit 2023 - Let’s go! ️
• [devlog] New Fraymakers Assist: Rockman! Plus more details in the latest changelog.
• [devlog] Friday Night Funkin’ Week of 2023/07/19: WE ARE SO BACK Edition.
• [devlog] Minicology 0.10.6: Objectives, gunplay improvements and fixes article.
• Via the Haxe Discord server, MichaelTheBirthdayRatz made a replit template for heaps.io. You can now make a game with heaps without downloading anything.
• Logo has been working on a list of people in the Haxe community on open platforms such as Mastodon.
• Haxe.Social is a new unofficial Akkoma instance for Haxe developers and projects.

Videos & Music

• Everything new in Armory 3D for July 2023 video.
• Via the Haxe Discord server, How to Make a Space Game in Heaps.io - Episode 1 Installation & Setup by Sabe.
• A collection of short videos from Kid Bubblegum:
  • Chillin’, Winnin’.
  • City Bubbles.
  • Strollin’ through the City.
  • Just Another City Stroll.
• Add a video related to Haxe.

Jobs, Bounties

• Add an available job involving Haxe.

Available for work

• You can hire Tim I Hely, a highly experienced HaxeFlixel developer!
• Alex Johansson is looking for a part time/contractor role.
• Rudy Geslin is available for freelance work.

Job listings

• None.

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.

Product Releases

• Via the Haxe Discord server, Hexlide git has been released, a Hexagonal analogue of the 15-tile sliding puzzle made with HaxeFlixel by Paracompact.

Previews & Demos

Open Source

Community Showcase

• Tiny plans by Oleg Dolya.
• HAXE HULK NEED HIGH SKILLS PEOPLE FOR UNPAID MANY HOURS SMASH JOB IN HAXE LET HULK KNOW ASAP.

Via the Haxe Discord server

• Robert Borghese has announced on Discord Evil Haxe git which is “a revival of an old collection of mods they made for the Haxe compiler. Only this time, it’s super modular, organized, and allows for parser mods to be written using Haxe itself.”.

Git Repos

• which.java git - Find the instances of an executable in the system path, in Java.
• free-mobile.java git - Send SMS messages to your Free Mobile account, in Java.
• akismet.java git - Prevent comment spam using Akismet service, in Java.
• haxe-ij-merge git - A WIP reimplementation of IntelliJ’s excellent diff merging algorithm in Haxe.
• setup-ivy git - Set up your GitHub Actions workflow with a standalone version of Apache Ivy.
• CFFI-Haxelib-Example git - An example library to learn how to create a custom NDLL for your Haxe project using both Haxe and C++.
• Lumod git - Framework for modding compiled Haxe classes with Lua.
• Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.

Closed Source

• Sneak peek at whats coming in the next release of Bring It On! Also check out the new Volcano Level that is coming soon in the next mayor update!
• Chompy! Get in the robot!
• In Crop Rotation, you usually don’t want to expand more than what you need. Then there is a duck.
• Walking to the shop in SCRAPS OF LIGHT.
• Three switches but only one clone by Robert Alvarez.
• Some guys by zzox (tyler).

Via the Haxe Discord server

• Eris demos their isometric prototype.
• Logo showcases their FireFox extension based off FryingPans code, which allows you to view Kick and Twitch chats in the same viewport.
• Ddmills started adding better weapon mechanics in Wild West Roguelike, shotgun will deal damage in a cone.
• Dimensionscape is working on implementing the 3D transformations of flash display objects.

Some Library Releases

• extension-androidtools 1.8.3
• hxwren 1.1.3
• hxlua 1.6.2
• FlixelStripShapes 0.1.0
• electron 25.3.0
• hxpotpack 1.0.2
• smartfox-haxe-client 1.0.0
• hxdefold 1.4.7
• flixel-demos 2.9.3
• ase 2.0.3
• 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.
• Kaelan Evans is working on HxDoom, a Haxe adaption of Doom.
• Richard Oliver Bray is teaching people the things he’s learnt, like React, Typescript and Haxe.
• Alexander Gordeyko is developing Pony, a Haxe open-cross-library.
• Andy Li is working around the Haxe ecosystem: CI, packaging, docs and learning materials.
• Kevin Leung is creating open source software libraries.
• Robert Konrad, the Kha author, is creating Programming Toolkits.
• 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.
• Slava Ra is creating improvements for FlashDevelop and HaxeDevelop.
• Mark Knol is working on Haxe and its documentation.
• Dan Korostelev is working on the Haxe compiler.

Updates from the Haxe core

Current Proposals & Discussions

• Add support for Typed metadata proposal.
• Add support for Extension of Abstracts proposal.
• Add Shading proposal with alt macro solution.
• Add package alias proposal.
• Add Integer data types proposal.
• Add Trailing Block Expressions proposal.
• Add Caller Tracking proposal.
• Add Traits 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

18~ updates have been made to Haxe in the last week.

• -D analyzer-optimize leads to negative UInt on HashLink issue.