Haxe Roundup 630

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

• Offering Bounties article by Rob Clemmons.
• Bring It On! - Coming Soon: v0.2.
• Advice on fast bitmap scaling, 9 month update.
• Final Saturday Fray: a New Assist Approaches! - May 2022 Fraymakers Roundup. Fraymakers will continue to post updates, but are focusing on an upcoming release!

Videos & Music

• Jumping Challenge video in Rogue of Vallas by Merrak.
• Climbing Challenge Level video in Rogue of Vallas by Merrak.
• A Grandmaster of Strategy Games ♟Is Shiro Games Massively Underrated? video by JumboPixel, via Shiro Games.
• Add a video related to Haxe.

Jobs, Bounties

• Add an available job involving Haxe.

Looking for 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

• Two bounties from Rob Clemmons, Better Inventory System for $320 Bounty & Dialogue Plus System for $320 Bounty.
• Basic Platformer Pathfinding AI for HaxeFlixel $150 bounty.
• Squidly has opened up a bounties page for HaxeFlixel features.

Product Releases & Announcements

• Dice Tribes: Ambition by ZwodahS will be released on Steam on June, 15th!
• JugieNoob has released version 1.2.0 of Mirrored.
• Via the Haxe Discord server, Flappy Flixel - a game made in less than 24 hours by JugieNoob using HaxeFlixel.

In case you missed it

• Scraps of Light demo has been “updated, it features 2x the content of the old demo and is better in every way”!
• Andrej has finished Cave of Lexip. If you played it and liked it, be sure to leave a rating!
• Tiny Dangerous Dungeons by AdventIslands is now live on Poki!
• AdventIslands has also updated all of their games on Google Play.

Previews & Demos

Open Source

Community Previews

Git Repos

• HelloCeramic git - My helloworld project for ceramic.
• Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.

Closed Source

• “With his brand new airdash, the super versatile Triple module joins Welltaro’s arsenal! How are you gonna use this one?” via Fraymakers.
• New GIF from SCRAPS OF LIGHT - Having fun making more freaks.
• After [Speer DX] has been released, Andrej will spend some time to create a library of all the classes and tools.
• Advent is localizing Tightrope Theatre, which will support Latin American Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Italian, French, German, Japanese and Korean! ️
• Here is Gil, an other character from In Your Books that was made last month.
• Tyler is workin on a click-to-dash platformer in HaxeFlixel.
• SRDude continue working on platformer game:
  • Back from vacation.
  • Day 16 - button.
  • Day 18 - touch your past self to instantly cause a paradox, just like real life!
  • Day 19 - I think this one ended up okay.
  • Day 21 - Been working on some of the simpler ways to die.

From the Haxe Discord server

• Prexot shows the fruit of labors so far into ceramic (engine), spine (animation), and inkscape (images). ️

Some Library Releases

• pony 1.8.4
• location 1.2.2
• 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 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

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

• Name conflict of module function with static extension using function fixed.
• Too big error range for Not_enough_arguments issue.

In case you missed it

• Overriding files no longer works as expected in development builds fixed.
• Wrong diagnostic range for override keyword 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 see you next week.