Haxe Roundup 618

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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

In case you missed it

Videos & Music

  • StoryDev Monthly Update - March '22.
  • 📝 Add a video related to Haxe.
In case you missed it
  • Inventory money and level transition effect devlog by RPG Playground.
  • Week #4 Brief - Entities Interacting with Entities video by StoryDev.
  • Squidly continues streaming Renaine development.

Jobs, Bounties

Looking for work

Job listings

Bounties

  • The team at SoccerTutor are offering a bounty to get this [cpp] issue 8400 fixed. 🆕
  • Basic Platformer Pathfinding AI for HaxeFlixel $150 bounty.
  • Squidly has opened up a bounties page for HaxeFlixel features.

Product Releases & Announcements

In case you missed it

Previews & Demos

Open Source

Community Previews
Git Repos
  • internBase git - A base game to be used for interns study.
  • feathersui-binding git - Experimental library to implement data binding with @:bindable and events.
  • hxDTS git - A Torque Game Engine DTS parser.
  • Kholdan git - A silly game engine development toolkit.
  • Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.

Closed Source

From the Haxe Discord 🔑 server

Some Library Releases

People & Projects to support

  • 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.
  • 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.

Updates from the Haxe core

Current Proposals & Discussions

Core Changes

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

  • Regex Unicode sequences break completion issue.
  • [js] ESM import syntax support issue.
  • [lua] Minimal implementation of ssl merged.
  • [jvm] Allow option to produce .class files without zipping them into a jar feature request.

In case you missed it

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 see you next week. 🇺🇦