Haxe Roundup 698

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

• Haxe 4.3.3 has been released!
  • This is a bugfix release. It is available along with the changelog at https://haxe.org/download/version/4.3.3.
• [events/upcoming] Haxe Roundup Roundup Discord Event scheduled for Sunday 3rd December 18:30.
• Typed metadata proposal update.
• Armory3D Release 2023.11 | Recast Navigation System Overhaul by RPaladin over on BlenderNation.
• ☠️ Perilous Shores 1.6.1: Tributaries by Oleg Dolya.

Devlogs

• Dune: Spice Wars - Community Update #1 Out Now!
• Northgard: Enter the clan of the Owl! article.
• Bring It On! 0.13 Corruption Update is now available! Find out more about the Corruption over on Steam.

Videos & Music

• FNF Custom Engines video by TaeYai.
• 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

• Dune: Spice Wars is now available on Xbox Series X/S.
• You can now play Yule Duel - the 2022 Tankmas Game by Axol Studio - as it’s own, standalone game.
• Animal Arena by Advent is now globally launched on Poki.

Previews & Demos

Open Source

Community Showcase

• Some additions to HaxeUI animation tools to allow animating parts of your user interface with ease! by Ian Harrigan.

Git Repos

• Ceramic v1.3.2 has been released.
• openfl-seawater-shader git - It uses shaders to achieve basic seawater effects, such as shadows and waves.
• SimpleLocation git - Home grown localization system made from scratch!
• HaxeRustIntegration git - Usage of Rust native library in Haxe, an experiment aimed at studying the execution of code.
• DyslexicWords git - An application aimed at Dyslexics to support writing and reading text.
• HaxeDoxInjector git - A library which provides a macro to inject documentation into Haxe classes from JSON data.
• Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.

Closed Source

• When even the fox going through infinite glitched forms refuses to talk to you.
• Running into some tiny roadblocks quick videos from WIP game by eggu.
• Create a path to the exit in Arrow Pathway by Robert Alvarez.
• In Leapin Lads by Cory Martin you can play as pizza.
• New quick videos from Starfox remake by SnkyGames:
  • Don’t destroy the default blender cube! It ends up here!
  • Colour fading 🐸
  • So happy! I added a new feature to physics, ability to modify collision geometry in real-time.

Via the Haxe Discord server

• Tyler is doing some dungeon generation.
• Some recent tracks along with two new menus from WIP Sweepminer game by ChargingTurnip.
• Antriel began work on Fantasy Sphere Mini - a new, planned to be tiny, RPG.
• Little update on Hitter by naoya.
• EyeDaleHim made some spaghetti code for full screen and gameplay resetting for FNaF Series Recreation.

Some Library Releases

• sha 0.0.1
• godot-extension-api-typings 1.1.0
• parasol 0.0.8
• hx-http-server 0.0.4
• openfl-glsl 0.2.0
• SScript 8.1.6
• hxstb_vorbis 0.1.3
• hxal 1.0.2
• hxsdl 0.2.0
• hxpy 1.0.0
• electron 27.1.0
• bootstrap_bundle 2.3.2
• godot-api-generator 1.3.1
• hgsl 0.4.0
• hxcpp-release 4.3.15
• typed-json 0.0.3
• macro-type-decoder 0.0.3
• couchdb 0.2.1
• 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

61~ updates have been made to Haxe in the last two weeks.

• [display] Remove legacy diagnostics draft pull request.
• [display] Diagnostics as json rpc merged.
• [display] Expose list of metadata/defines merged.
• [hashlink] Add hlc stack trace to Linux/Mac merged.
• [hl] Hashlink null comparison issue.
• [hl/c] Fix reserved keywords merged.
• [hl/c] Compilation fails with C compilers when Haxe field name matches C #define issue.
• [jvm] Jvm annotation rework merged.
• Add support for --undefine foo to remove define merged.
• Unclosed monomorphs in function signature issue.
• Remove hx4compat stuff (part 1) pull request.
• Override and default types issue.
• Add MFromMacroInMacro constraint and check it when iterating/matching pull request.
• Track actual path position for path.Path<Params> merged.
• Use available terminal columns instead of hardcoded 80 columns merged.
• Crash on ambiguous string interpolation expression fixed.
• Inline constructors vs. Void (continued) issue.
• Void expressions in value places… in non-value places fixed.
• Expected type conflation in binop handler fixed.
• Duplicate parameter name issue.
• Metadata attached to nothing issue.
• Remove magicTypes.ml merged.
• Module field regression fixed.