Haxe Roundup 626

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

• The weekly progress of the Haxe to OCaml project.
• Happy Orcapril! April 2022 Fraymakers Roundup.
• Chapter 8: Creating a Light Cycles Clone article by E. Zachary Knight.
• Playing With Planetary Sprites in Two Chapters article by E. Zachary Knight.
• See what press are saying about Dune: Spice Wars.
• The latest articles from Kirill Poletaev, Phantom Path update - Russian localization and Game code that programs itself.
• Finishing the Map – DQ2 Progress Report for April 2022 by Lars Doucet.
• [event] Sébastien Bénard will tell about designing own tools at ADDON event (18-19 May 2022).

Videos & Music

• Minicology mini-devlog! Adding research to my tiny-planet space game video.
• 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

• Saga Education, “a leading provider of in-person and online tutoring products, currently has multiple openings for Software Engineers”, Software Engineer III, Staff Software Engineer, plus two other technical positions.
• 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

• Northgard: Sword & Solace free major update announcement.
• Via the Haxe Discord server, Skyfire2008 has uploaded the latest version of TD2S to itch.io.

In case you missed it

• Dune: Spice Wars is in Early Access now! ️
• Phantom Path Soundtrack is on Steam as a standalone purchase or in a bundle with the game.
• Pilie Pals’ Soundtrack is on Steam as a standalone purchase or in a bundle with the game.
• Via the Haxe Discord server, Griss has published a little game made with Ceramic engine - Tap the ✨GLOWING SQUARE✨.

Previews & Demos

Open Source

Community Previews

• HashLink 1.12 has been released, with support for hot reloads, native Int64 and more!
• HaxePrimeSieve git - A port of @davepl’s prime sieve to Haxe, for a Haxe speed comparison.

From the Haxe Discord server

• George has added new ray function for tilemaps in HaxeFlixel which solves issues that old ray casting had.

Git Repos

• haxe-rename 2.2.0 has been released.
• ceramic 0.12.0 has been released, which now supports gyroscope events from some game controllers (on native Clay targets & Unity).
• Glory-Framework 2.2.0 has been released.
• Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.

Closed Source

• Another small improvement in [Speer DX] by Andrej: You can now drop through your speer if you want to.
• 4 lights in Patches Of Adventure by Rob Clemmons Jr.
• Several Screenshots from 1-2 by Naoya.
• Strange place, stranger enemies in SCRAPS OF LIGHT.
• “ZAA WARLUDOO~!!” by SRDude.
• Merrak shows off the first boss level, “New Technology”, for Rogue or Vallas.
• Super Cosmic Heist - World 4-1, with official music by Fierce.
• Gain massive speed boosts in Tightrope Theatre, to avoid hazards and leap over large pits, by Advent.

From the Haxe Discord server

• Codescapade got rendering only what is inside the camera bounds working properly.
• ShaharMS implemeted Haxe transpiling. Still a WIP.
• OpenGL on Haxe HXCPP by poly.hx.

Some Library Releases

• glory 2.2.0
• hgsl 0.1.3
• rename 2.2.0
• dice 0.0.3
• lcov 4.0.0
• ase 2.0.1
• 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.
• 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

• 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

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

• Change m_dirty to tri-state m_cache_state 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.