Haxe Roundup 700

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 over on the Haxe Discord server is scheduled for Sunday 21st January 18:30.
• IntelliJ IDEA Haxe plugin version 1.4.21 has been released.
• 4 Years of go2hx post and GitHub timeline. ️
• Via the Haxe Discord server, NotBilly New Year’s Haxe Discord message.
• Armory3D 2024.01 Release Notes via RPaladin.
• Leo Bergman has posted threads about Haxe Compilation Times and Support for being declarative over on Twitter.
• 🍺Tiny Pubs 1.0.1 article by Oleg Dolya.
• Avdanced features available in HashLink 1.14 documentation via Nicolas Cannasse.
• Text to speech question.
• Robert Konrad might be available as a freelancer from this May, to work on console ports or performance work.

Devlogs

• Fraymakers Development Update - January 2024 (plus 2023 Recap!) article.
• Dune: Spice Wars - Community Update #2 Out Now!

  • Changes to Conquest, UI/UX improvements & more!

• Wartales Patch Notes for 15/12/2023, 19/12/23, 20/12/23, 21/12/23 and 04/01/24.
• Northgard Patch Notes for 21/12/23.
• Minicology Interstellar Intermission: Catch Us in 2024!
• Fraymakers 0.6.3 and 0.6.4 updates.

  • Input Eating Bug Fix + Fishbunjin Spinning Piledriver!

• Chibi Ninja Shino-kun: Treasure of Demon Tower 1.0.2 update is out!

Videos & Music

• Scavenger Hunt in 2D Minecraft! (Mine Blocks 1.31) video.
• Wartales, Pirates of Belerion | Release Trailer.
• Armory3d Community Channel - I’m leaving video.
• Making TicTacToe Game Using Armory3d Part 1 Grid Setup video.
• Making TicTacToe Game Using Armory3d Part 2 RayCaster video.
• Armory3d Lesson 01 - Numbers and Operators video.
• Armory3d Lesson 02 - Variables video.
• Armory3d Lesson 03 - Strings video.
• Armory3d Lesson 04 - Boolean video.
• Short Armory3d gameplay demo.
• Go! Go! PogoGirl running on Mega Drive video.
• Power Line Rider Trailer.
• 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.
• 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

• Wartales: Pirates of Belerion - Out Now!
• Bring It On! Tundra 0.14.1 has been released!

  • The 7th and second-to-last level for Bring It On! has been released!

• DCACLab just launched a new analysis type: DC Sweep. Unleash its potential and elevate your analysis experience.
• Gogoprog updated Mariah Carnage https://gogoprog.itch.io/mariah-carnage with a visual feedback when the player is hit! Have fun!

Previews & Demos

Open Source

Community Showcase

• EZHeaps git - EZHeaps makes making games in Heaps EZ.
• HxGodot finally properly deals with GC & RefCounted. HxGodot also now supports documentation generation based on official GodotEngine docs with adjusted Haxe types by Michael Bickel.
• SomeRanDev previews “the hookshot ability takes a bit of skill to combo with the wall-run” in a Haxe Godot demo.
• LDtk 1.5.0 has been released! ️

Via Haxe Discord server

• With contributions from @AltronMaxX, haxeget now has Windows support and supports nightly builds!

Git Repos

• [reflaxe] haxe_swift git - Reflaxe based compiler to generate swift code.
• DomKit 1.0 has been released.
• Heaps 2.0 has been released.
• rewrite git - Small script that rewrites Haxe expressions with primitive pattern matching (inspired by gofmt).
• spiel-server git - A simple server for Spiel Messenger written in Haxe.
• HxDiscordGateway git - Library to communicate with the Discord Gateway through WebSockets.
• pbkdf2-haxe git - Haxe implementation of the PBKDF2 Algorithm for password hashing (library resurrection).
• jsonhttphx git - Perform JSON-oriented HTTP tasks on all native (sys) platforms.
• hlos git - A toy operating system for HashLink VM.
• air3 git - Externs for Adobe AIR3, ported to Haxe 4.
• epikowa_mocky git - A Haxe 4/5 mocking library.
• Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.

Closed Source

• Thieves stole your armor? Shotgun Time! via Clyde.
• Renaine GIFS!
  • Cute lil bird walking back and forth all Egyptian like ok?
  • Aeri’s are speri’s with hats.
  • In Lower Factoria things… are not going so good.
  • Help they are struggling
  • These almost-perfectly looping gnomes have no idea their whole tileset is gonna be replaced in a few days, anyone gonna tell them?
  • I updated Holiday Chompy to the most recent sprite sheet so they’re free to festively chomp once again.
  • Someone left all these presents for Chompy, any guesses to what’s inside?
  • He’s just a lil guy, look at em’ go.
  • Personally im offended that you’d rather break physics and sink into the floor than look at me.
  • Speedy Speedy 💨🫧.

Via the Haxe Discord server

• A small demo of a digital circuit simulation app and a demo of multiplexer builds in Logimimic.
• Trying to add a cartwheeling monkey to Power Line Rider by travis_battles.

Some Library Releases

• pony 19.6
• genes 0.4.11
• ldtk-haxe-api 1.5.0-rc.1
• echo 4.2.4
• siteHX 1.0.0
• HxDiscordGateway git
• hxsdl_ttf 0.1.0
• hxsdl_image 0.1.0
• haxework 2.1.0
• tink_domspec 0.5.2
• hxdr_mp3 0.1.0
• hxglad 0.1.0
• HaxeGJClient 5.0.0
• neutralinojs 2.0.0
• openfl-spine 1.8.8
• zygameui 14.0.19
• hx-astcenc 1.0.0
• epicqr 0.9.2
• json_http 1.0.0
• hx-chatgpt 0.0.2
• HxWebView 0.0.3
• bootstrap_bundle 3.0.1
• hxvlc 1.1.0
• hlsdl 1.14.0
• hxdx 1.14.0
• domkit 0.3.0
• heaps 2.0.0
• format 3.7.0`
• HaxeAL-Soft 1.0.1
• yukonio 1.0.0
• godot-extension-api-typings 1.1.1
• polybool 1.0.1
• flixel-text-input 2.0.1
• mc2it_theme 6.2.3
• hxpotpack 1.0.3
• coroutine 2.0.3
• yield 3.2.2
• test-adapter 2.0.6
• hscript-iris 1.0.2
• 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

• Additional syntax for safe navigation discussion.
• 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

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

• Typedef vs. GADT fixed.
• [cpp] Enum Type Checking merged.
• [messageReporting] Add config to use absolute positions merged.
• [macro/draft] MacroApi cleanup for Haxe 5 pull request.
• Analyzer infinite loop with recursive enum values fixed.
• Aidan Lee updates us with his progress on the Async IO API - part 1 - part 2.
• [hxcpp] Do not add host architecture if an arm architecture is set pull request.
• Internal type parameter changes merged.
• Update hxcpp defines merged.
• [lua] Allow generating sourcemaps for Lua in the same format as JS merged.
• [lua] Fix bug in genlua causing significant slowdown in all loops merged, improving loop perf by 30% in limited testing.
• Internal dependency cleanup 2023 merged.
• Add @:message.follow pull request.
• Add generator-specific ocntext pull request.
• [ocamhaxe] Move towards OCaml 5 issue.
• A story of cf_expr_unoptimiszed vs hxb issue.
• HashLink 1.4 has been released.
• [js] Wrong calculation for Int64 (ushr/add) methods issue.
• Missing field generation regression issue.
• Avoid creating TAnons from object declarations if we have an expected type pull request.
• [hxcpp] GC Pinning pull request.
• [hashlink] try catch set bug issue.
• Bucket typer delays pull request.
• [hxcpp] Remove Haxe 3 code pull request.
• [macro] @:native vs two macros fixed.
• [hxcpp] Generate typed functions performance update from Aidan Lee.
• [hxb] HXB finishing line todo list.
• Remove some global state merged.
• Don’t create a class field for every enum field merged.
• Add server/resetCache and use it in the server tests pull request.