Haxe Roundup 561

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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

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Videos & Music

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Upcoming Events & Talks

Jobs, Bounties

Looking for work

  • Javid Jafari is looking for a job.
  • Joshua Granick is looking for paid work.
  • Justin Mills is looking for a fulltime job. Justin is an ex Flash/AIR/Away3D/Papervision3D expert who’s been using Haxe for 10 years, a good lateral thinker & loves visual stuff, maths and capable at fine art.
  • Andreas Drewke is looking for a part time job.
  • Torcado is looking for a publisher/indie fund to help him fund the rest of the development for Heck Deck. He would love to know any recommendations you may have.

Job listings

  • Shiro Games are still looking for people to join their team of passionate developers in Bordeaux to work on a new unannounced project. 🆕
  • Bloognoo is looking for a Haxe developer to help them save live venues.
  • The team behind Forge of Empires at InnoGames is looking for a Haxe developer, feel free to contact Dan Korostelev in case of any questions! More info can be found at the company’s website. ♻️
  • BeeInventor Limited are hiring for a Haxe fullstack developer to join them in Taipei. 🆕

Bounties

Product Releases & Announcements

  • Terry Cavanagh announced that the next update to Dicey Dungeons will have an Arabic translation. A public beta is live on the Steam branch “arabic” right now! This means that OpenFL will possibly have support for RTL and ligatures text rendering (at least for native platforms).
  • Maze Genius available on itch.io made with HaxeFlixel by newlibarian via Haxe Discord server.
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Code Examples

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Previews & Demos

Open Source

Community Previews
Project Progress
Git Repos
  • hxrx git - Haxe 4.2 reactive extensions.
  • externs.hx git - Partial Haxe externs for common JavaScript and PHP libraries. ⭐️
  • fure git - Functional Reactive Framework.
  • HExt git - HTML templating with code-completion.
  • Haxe-C-Bridge git - [WIP] Easily embed a multi-threaded Haxe program within a native application via an automatically generated C header. ⭐️
  • LucidText git - LucidText is a HaxeFlixel library designed to give easy access to juicy text in the style of games like Paper Mario, Animal Crossing, and Celeste.
  • postgres-ext git by Benjamin Dasnois provides sys.db.Connection for PostgreSQL.
  • HaxeTools git - Набор часто используемых инструментов для Haxe / A set of frequently used tools for Haxe.
  • Kat git - Music Player for music listeners and streamers.
  • Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.

Closed Source

Some Library Releases

People & Projects to support

  • 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.
  • Lubos & contributors are creating Armory, an open source 3D game engine in Blender.
  • 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.
  • Eric Bishton is creating the Haxe plugin for IntelliJ IDEA.
  • Will Blanton is creating HaxeFlixel tutorials.
  • Matthew Wallace is creating Haxe By Example tutorials.
  • August Late is creating unique 2D lighting tech.

Updates from the Haxe core

Current Proposals & Discussions

Core Changes

27~ commits have been made to Haxe compiler in the last week.

  • [cpp] Fix typing of cpp.Native.star merged.
  • Macro reification of abstract/final class/interface issue.
  • Problem with overloading of compound assignment operators issue.
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  • GADT type params and inlining issue.
  • [ILIB] Add Linux & OSX Amd64 merged - Needed for .NET 5.0 std dlls.
  • [cs] Avoid CA2200 warning when rethrowing merged.
  • [cs] Implement cs.Syntax.code and cs.Syntax.plainCode pull request.
  • [cs/java] Do not check abstract fields in libs merged.
  • [ide/cache] Signature based module invalidation ideas.
  • Add .NET 5.0 merged.
  • [draft] Start working on Void unit type pull request.
  • [cpp] Support new and super for native classes merged.
  • [cpp] Overload resolution for TNew merged.
  • [js] Generate export with @:expose and -D js-es=6 pull request.
  • Custom map implementations perform poorly at large sizes issue.
  • Formalize/design/unit-test IDE-support API for macros discussion.
  • @:structInit can be used to bypass final assignment issue.
  • @:forward.new breaks with constructor closures fixed.
  • Regression in operators handling issue.

You can get started using the latest features by downloading a nightly build of Haxe and see the impact the latest changes have on each target by browsing the benchmarks site.

Take it easy everyone, stay safe and have a good week!