Haxe Roundup 706

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/event] The next Haxe Roundup Roundup Discord event is scheduled for the 14th April at 19:30.
• The latest compiler async io update from Aidan on Object Lifetimes.
• IntelliJ IDEA Haxe Plugin version 1.4.47 has been released.
• Given only a reference to a method, can I get the instance the method belongs to in Haxe? question & answer.
• Minicology: E-Corp Intergalactic Almanac: The Nano-Tool article.

Devlogs

• Bring It On! 0.14.16 bugs fixes and improvements galore!
• Northgard patch notes for 26/03/24, plus, Claws & Jaws preview - Wild Foes.
• Dune: Spice Wars patch notes for 02/04/24.
• Wartales Roadmap Update for 21/03/24.

Videos & Music

• The Undertale Purple team has released three new soundtracks as sneak peeks.
• Armory3d Tutorial 30 Game Over video.
• 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 Hely, a highly experienced Haxe & HaxeFlixel developer, with 20+ years of experience!
• 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

• Slameron has released Diced Up!, a shooter where you get new perks and unlock new weapons as floors progress, available on Newgrounds.
• Zwodahs has released Kadoko, a short deduction game, sudoku + poker.

Previews & Demos

Open Source

Community Showcase

• The HaxeFlixel website received a new section on the main page plus some minor tweaks.
• Michael Bickel has been “messing with some secret Haxe engine work”, creating a live coding prototype mixing bgfx and nanovg with cppia.

Via the Haxe Discord server

• Michael Bickel shows off hot-reloading a HaxeUI project.

Git Repos

• haxe-strings 7.0.5 has been released.
• Copper-MC git - Minecraft bedrock edition server written in Haxe.
• Haxe-UnRAR git - Haxe C++ native externs for UnRAR.
• blok.router git - Simple routing for Blok.
• jbuff git - JSON w/Buffer File Format.
• Emitter git - A tiny, fast, and lightweight signal emitter for Haxe.
• Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.

Closed Source

• Ian Harrigan showcases Glint Analytics, a crypto data analytics visualization platform in closed beta, fully built in HaxeUI.
• Cremini movement glitch or shmoovement tech? in Renaine.
• Geokureli has ported their old game, Gassy Rick Astley to HaxeFlixel for its 10 year anniversay! Play it now on Newgrounds.

Via the Haxe Discord server

• Travis is still messing around with in the game colours of Power Line Rider. Plus a preview of the new colour scheme for all three regions.

Some Library Releases

• UnRAR 1.0.0
• gmodhaxe 0.3.0
• hxAwsSdk 0.0.7
• haxe-github 1.1.3
• haxe-strings 7.0.5
• hxWebP 0.4.0
• hxbun 0.1.0
• SScript 17.2.618
• hxchart 0.0.1
• Emitter 0.9.0
• redistHelper 0.7.6
• thrift 0.20.0
• 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.
• 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

• 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

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

• Apply @:using after build macros merged.
• Missing type parameter infor when return type inferred from interface issue.
• Delay macro build order change with -D haxe-next pull request.
• [hxb] Detect need for local context in nested anons merged.
• Catch missing standard library in init macros merged.
• [hashlink] Single and hl.F32 function args for callMethod stack issue fixed.
• Fix @:generic with multiple calls merged.
• [hxcpp] Abstract wrapping extern cannot find the extern issue.