Haxe Roundup 664

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

• [events/inprogress] HaxeJam 2023: Winter Jam the Again and Again theme, will finish on February 12th.
• [devlog] Renaine Kickstarter Update 42: Six Years!. ️
• [devlog] Perilous Shores 1.5.0: Area labels and conlang toponyms by Oleg Dolya.
• [devlog] Week of 2023/01/27: IN FUNKIN’ WE TRUST by ninja_muffin99.
• [devlog] Music playback and memory management in Citadelic article by Kirill Poletaev
• [devlog] UI Design at Lower Resolutions Odd Verdure devlog.
• [devlog] Fraymakers EA Update v0.5.3 - Palette Performance, Tap Jump, Quick Reload & more.
• 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

• Everything new in February 2023 release of Armory 3D video.
• Add a video related to Haxe.

Jobs, Bounties

• Add an available job involving Haxe.

Looking for work

• Alex Johansson is looking for a part time/contractor role.
• Rudy Geslin is available for freelance work.

Job listings

• Sean James McKenzie of Armor Games Studios is looking for a team experienced in porting Haxe games to console.
• 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.
• Armory3D bounties are available.
• Basic Platformer Pathfinding AI for HaxeFlixel $150 bounty.
• Squidly has opened up a bounties page for HaxeFlixel features.

Product Releases & Announcements

• zzox (tyler) has released sinesurf on itch and Newgrounds.
• Dicey Dungeons for PS4 and PS5 is OUT NOW! via Terry Cavanagh.
• The Root of the Problem is the 2023 Global Game Jam entry by Axol Studio.
• Casey Clyde is working on Into the Necrovale.
• Dead Cells: Return to Castlevania DLC is arriving 6th March on PC & consoles.
• IriySoft has ported Battalion Commander 2 to HTML5 with OpenFL.

Previews & Demos

Open Source

Community Previews

• Reusable workflows for GitHub Actions to easily build/test Haxe code against different Haxe versions and compiler targets. haxe-reusable-workflows.
• Some new systems in HaxeUI.
• Michael Bickel is porting more and more bits of their old Godot 3 space-game project over to HxGodot and Godot Engine 4.
• Nanjizal is experimenting with their PixelImage library.

Git Repos

• Haxe-to-GCFreeCPP git - An alternative C++ target for Haxe that generates dependent-less, GC-less C++17 code using the reflaxe library. ️
• CastleDBGUI git is the adaptation of CastleDB. Works with HaxeUI and OpenFL.
• yad git - Youtube Archive Downloader.
• Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.

Closed Source

• This enemy from Chibi Ninja Shino-kun is supposed to throw shuriken….
• Rob Clemmons Jr thinks that Patches Of Adventure basics are there.
• HxcodecPlus Dev Build : 001.
• ZwodahS is working on extended version of Crop Rotation.

Some Library Releases

• electron 23.0.0
• linc_wintoast 0.0.4
• hxdiscord 0.2.5
• webstorage 4.0.3
• tokentree 1.2.6
• hldx 1.13.0
• hlsdl 1.13.0
• flx-jamkit 0.0.1
• lcov 5.0.0
• which 3.1.2
• bootstrap_bundle 2.1.0
• 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 Integer data types proposal.
• Add Trailing Block Expressions proposal.
• 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

38~ updates have been made to Haxe in the last week.

• Wrong fields order for @:structInit object literal completion issue.
• Rest vs optional arguments issue.
• Add test for Int/Int32 shift left operations with overflow pull request.
• [eval] Add -D eval-pretty-print pull request.