Haxe Roundup 623

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

• Oleg Dolya has published “🌆City Viewer 1.2.0: a bunch of new visual features” over on Patreon.
• New Dead Cells alpha with accessibility options, Assist Mode and beginner item reworks! ️

Videos & Music

• How to create custom a deadzone or follow camera position in HaxeFlixel video by Richard Oliver Bray.
• Add a video related to Haxe.

Jobs, Bounties

• Add an available job involving Haxe.

Looking for work

• Rudy Geslin is looking for full-time remote work.
• Andreas Drewke is looking for a freelancer job or part time job.

Job listings

• Shiro Games are looking for a talented marketing director to join them!
• ScottPlusPlus is looking to hire a Haxe developer, ideally with web experience, to help with consultation and code-reviews for a couple hours per week.
• Little team is looking for a Haxe developer to work on HTML5 games.
• Shiro Games are looking for a Senior Game Programmer.

Bounties

• Basic Platformer Pathfinding AI for HaxeFlixel $150 bounty.
• Squidly has opened up a bounties page for HaxeFlixel features.

Product Releases & Announcements

• Motion Twin’s Dead Cells: The Queen and the Sea DLC is out on iOS and Android. The free updates Everyone is Here and Practice Makes Perfect are available to download too! ️
• Patreons can now check out an exclusive preview build of [Speer DX]!

Previews & Demos

LD50 “Delay the inevitable”

• Unfamiliar, plus the game’s announcement by Dan Lin.
• Torcado’s Ludum Dare 50 entry - Chronis.
• Duck It! via Squidly.
• Volcano Maintenance by jefvel.
• The Pit by ZwodahS. Made with Heaps.
• Lightseekers by Chekisteg. Made with HaxeFlixel.
• Puddle Boat by Pirhana. Made with Heaps.
• Snowcastle meltdown by Noiyy. Made with OpenFL.
• Xermatt Redux. Made with Heaps.
• Calcium Carnage by Liam, made with HaxeFlixel.

Open Source

Community Previews

• Ian Harrigan has made sure the HaxeUI pdcurses backend “works correctly with actions, meaning the UI can be navigated with the keyboard!”
• Ian Harrigan shows support for different font formats in HaxeUI RayLib.
• Via the Deepnight Discord server, Sébastien Bénard is promising a much better “external enum sync” experience for LDtk, with enum renaming support.

From the Haxe Discord server

• ShaharMS shows texter git - a wrapper above TextField to support RTL text, full markdown and upper & lower masks!
• CRobes wrote Haxe Git Submodule Manager git - a tool that automates adding/removing git submodules for easier dependency management.

Git Repos

• SRDude wrote a magic-array-tools git library that converts clean, JS-like method chains on Arrays and Iterables into a single, inlined for-loop. ️
• HGSL git: A shading language that can be compiled into GLSL ES 3.0.
• haxe-pd git - Playdate Lua/C externs for working with the Playdate SDK by Kino.
• Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.

Closed Source

• Fraymakers takes a look at the Merchant Port stage!
• Merrak has released some scenes from the “High Security Compound” WIP level in Rogue of Vallas.
• Andrej is presenting: World 4 of [Speer DX].
• Mauve shows new fog shader for Addlemoth.
• RPG Playground is working on damage types and equipment defence against it.

From the Haxe Discord server

• Daisy is going to make a joke game about lil star on a skate.
• Skidding system for the Sonic thingy by Daisy.
• Idenner is adding terraria-style invasions to Minicology.

Some Library Releases

• texter 2.0.3
• graphql-server-php 0.1.0
• Console.hx 0.3.0
• pony 1.8.2
• magic-array-tools 1.1.0
• which 3.1.1
• webstorage 4.0.2
• nwjs 1.2.2
• lcov 3.0.1
• Check out the most recent library releases on HaxeLib.

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

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

• [haxelib] Fix haxelib.json issues merged.
• [macro/display] Setting ComplexType to Field breaks Position data issue.

In case you missed it

• Move warning list to prebuild pull request.
• Std.parseInt() fixes and optimisations pull request.
• Unify compiler messages and diagnostics merged.

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.