Haxe Roundup 659

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

• New set of libraries & initiative: “Core Haxe” announcement.
• Debugging Hxcpp Programs with Sourcemaps article by Aidan Lee. ️
• LDtk 1.2.0 is out! Happy new year!
• ⛏️Cave Generator 2.0.0: glade view article by Oleg Dolya.
• ❄️Winter Wreaths article by Oleg Dolya.
• Fraymakers Early Access Arrives on January 18th!
• Wartales: Major Update #3.
• [devlog] Energy Island Corp: Major Update 1.1.
• [devlog] Dune: Spice Wars - December Dev Update.
• Logo has been working on a list of people in the Haxe community on open platforms such as Mastodon. ️
• Haxe.Social is a new unofficial Akkoma instance for Haxe developers and projects. ️

Videos & Music

• Rogue of Vallas Mineshaft Level.
• Interview with a Developer video.
• Big things for Armory 3D in 2023 video.
• Custom Graphics in RPG Playground.
• Gunman Clive Joins Fraymakers!
• Northgard | Cross of Vidar Launch Trailer.
• Raycasting Explained in Armory 3D.
• Using Tweens in Armory 3D for smooth animations.
• Armory 3D’s single biggest update - January 2023
• Add a video related to Haxe.

Jobs, Bounties

• Add an available job involving Haxe.

Looking for work

• Rudy Geslin is available for freelance work.

Job listings

• Corrun is looking for an experienced Haxe programmer to make a deltarune engine.
• Fire Falcom are actively looking for Gaming Platform Programmers.
• Little team is looking for a Haxe developer to work on HTML5 games.

Bounties

• Keep an eye on the Funkin Bounties repo for future items.
• Five new Armory3D bounties have been listed.
• Basic Platformer Pathfinding AI for HaxeFlixel $150 bounty.
• Squidly has opened up a bounties page for HaxeFlixel features.

Product Releases & Announcements

• Lighthouses generator for #procjam by Oleg Dolya.

Previews & Demos

Open Source

Community Previews

• OpenFL and Haxe: Foundation ActionScript 3.0 Animation repo translated from Making Things Move by Keith Peters.

Git Repos

• LDtk 1.2.1 has been released.
• Reflaxe version 2.0.0 has been released. ️
• Haxe-to-GDScript version 0.1.0 has been released. ️
• Haxe-checkstyle 2.8.4 has been released.
• [vector-math] Workaround for nasty ternary closure codegen for min/max on Lua target pull request.
• [openfl] Use HashLink to run Lime tools draft pull request.
• json-rpc git - JSON RPC client supporting fully typed rest operations.
• http git - Flexible HTTP client supporting different HTTP providers.
• rest git - Rest client supporting fully typed rest operations.
• db-core git - Pluggable database abstraction.
• db-sqlite git - sqlite database plugin for db-core.
• db-mysql git - mysql database plugin for db-core.
• sqlite3 git - sqlite3 for all relevant Haxe targets.
• mysql git - mysql for all relevant Haxe targets.
• queues-core git - Pluggable queue abstraction.
• logging git - Flexible logging framework supporting various adaptors.
• promises git - Promise lib (typedef for thenshim currently).
• haxe-nvim git - Configure NeoVim in Haxe!!! Lua externs for the neovim lua API.
• hlwwise git - Basic Wwise bindings for Hasklink.
• discordjs git - Haxe Externs for discord.js
• TA-LIB-Haxe git - Rewrite TA-LIB in Haxe.
• love-hx git - A small template for creating Love2D games with Haxe.
• sharperus git - Small experiment on converting Cerberus-X code to C#.
• Haxetta-stone git - One game, multiple frameworks.
• Parallax git - Heaps Parallax Library.
• Pacaea git - A file packer for a Switch rhythm game.
• dinomight-editor git.
• hxcpp_asys git.
• Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.

Closed Source

• Mine Blocks now has 10K skins and has had 2.5 million plays this year!

Some Library Releases

• checkstyle 2.8.4
• torznab 0.1.0
• haxework 2.0.0
• HxShaders 5.3.0
• box2d-xml-parser 0.1.1
• fabula 0.8.0
• kadabra-utils 0.3.0
• hash 1.0.1
• pirhana 1.1.23
• ldtk-haxe-api 1.2.1-rc.1
• hxdefold 1.4.1
• hxdiscord 0.0.2
• dropecho.testing 1.0.1
• wasteofhaxe 0.1.0
• electron 22.0.0
• flxanimate 3.0.2
• flixel 5.1.0
• gdscript 0.1.1
• reflaxe 2.0.0
• omdb 1.2.2
• haxe-injection 3.0.1
• Check out the most recent library releases on HaxeLib.

People & Projects to support

• Axol Studio is a small independent game development studio, making games with and contributing to HaxeFlixel.
• 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 Caller Tracking proposal.
• Add Traits proposal.
• 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

74~ updates have been made to Haxe in the last three weeks.

• Floats being treated as Ints in interp mode issue.
• analyzer-user-var-fusion directive seems to be ignored in nightly issue.
• -D no-inline breaks map literals in HashLink issue.
• Clean up field-level errors merged.
• [ci] Improved CI build times merged.
• [typer] Better error messages when importing nonexistent subtypes / fields merged.
• [hxcpp] Libuv Asys Implementation draft pull request.
• [hashlink] Easier build on M1 pull request.
• [lua] Rest from Array doesn’t work properly issue.
• [lua] Respect lua-vanilla for Json.parse merged.
• [lua] Remove haxe-deps and directly reference dependencies; re-enable CI merged.
• [jvm] Rest from Array doesn’t work properly issue.
• [js] UInt inconsistent result across targets issue.
• [js] Fix type names in debugger pull request. ️
• [js] overload and @:require cannot be put together fixed.