Haxe Roundup 667

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

• There was an update to HaxeLib. It is minor release & has some bug fixes but stability is cool! Run haxelib --global install haxelib. via Aurel Bílý on the Haxe Discord server.
• NeoVim config written entirely in Haxe (using haxe-nvim) milestone.
• Creating a Launch Script with Haxe/Lime article by EliteMasterEric.
• Armory3D just got another release 2023.03! Full release notes. via RPaladin.
• [devlog] 🏰Medieval Fantasy City Generator 0.9.2: assorted new features and improvements by Oleg Dolya.
• [devlog] Fraymakers EA Update v0.5.5 - Major Lost Input Fixes and 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

• Marika Versus the Wall Walker video from Rogue of Vallas.
• Art Gallery & ME Environment 1 in Armory3D by Alexander Kleemann.
• Understanding Conditions in Armory 3D.
• Using 1 player controller across many levels in Armory 3D.
• Dead Cells: Return to Castlevania DLC - Final Teaser & Surprise Reveal.
• Dead Cells Mobile - Everyone is Here Vol.2 release trailer
• Dead Cells Mobile - Boss Rush Release trailer
• 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

• Citadelic Soundtrack is now available.

From the Haxe Discord server

• Crop Rotation 0.0.5 is live! With new mechanic : Crop Set. via ZwodahS.
• Cherry On Top is a cherry-throwing arcade microgame made by Markl for Nokia jam using HaxeFlixel.
• Fish, Man is a score-chaser game with a built in leaderboard by tissproper.

Previews & Demos

Open Source

Community Previews

• Thanks to the Haxe community (and its multilingual nature), HaxeUI now has a better locale support!
• Release of a successor library to old format-tiled in the form of tiledhx along with a backstory article of how both libraries came to be.
• Nanjizal is struggling with edge smoothing for triangles, but they are looking better.
• Michael Bickel: It’s time to worry about compiling, running and reloading Haxe as CPPIA scripts.

From the Haxe Discord server

• Ceramic is now able to load tilemap objects from LDtk projects.
• Blue is a free, multi-platform, compiled programming language made with and inspired by Haxe! Currently there are four supported language backends (C++, Groovy, Haxe, and Javascript), however the compiler has a Lua API that allows you to make your own language backends easily without meddling with the compiler’s source code.
  • GitHub.
  • [WIP] Documentation.
  • Standard Library reference.

Git Repos

• [tink_sql] WIP Initial SQL server support pull request.
• Ceramic 0.19.0 has been released.
• HaxeBSON git - BSON, short for Bin­ary JSON, is a bin­ary-en­coded seri­al­iz­a­tion of JSON-like doc­u­ments.
• iterMagic git - Helpers for IntIter.
• haxvolt git - Haxvolt is a Haxe library for building Revolt bots.
• Haxefrog git - Example Mindustry (automation tower defense RTS) mod in Haxe.
• FixedPointNumber git - A Haxe library for fixed point numbers.
• Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.

Closed Source

• Cornell Daly is getting around to actual core game mechanics for their engine’s POC project.
• Quick videos from new WIP platformer game by Robert Alvarez:
  • What if mid-air jumps made you smaller?
  • Bigger isn’t always better.
• New quick videos from Renaine:
  • Hey look I’m the programmer and I can hastily shove in whatever placeholder art for this duo boss battle I want ok?
  • Messy fight from an outtake.
  • Warning! One of these gnomes is not like the others! 🔺🔺🔺
  • ARE YOU READY TO CHALLENGE THE KING?
• New quick videos from Chibi Ninja Shino-kun:
  • If stuff drops from above, Shino-kun gets a little panicked… which is understandable, honestly. Look at the size of those things!
  • Chibi Ninja Shino-kun doesn’t have one, not two, but THREE ledge wobble animations. Why do you think the game is taking so long? I got priorities ¯_(ツ)_/¯
  • If you kick a shield enemy standing on ice in Chibi Ninja Shino-kun, he’ll slide farther than he usually would… and he looks a bit unhappy about it. Might have something to do with that spike pit.
  • The current state of Chibi Ninja Shino-kun.
  • Even a master ninja like Shino-kun can’t wall-jump when the walls are covered in ice. Who knew?
• New quick videos from WIP Starfox remake game by SnkyGames:
  • Blooper #1.
  • Blooper #2.
  • Starfox update 🐸🐰🦅🦊, new Camera 📹.

From the Haxe Discord server

• Yoplala is making a dictation app for Linux. It uses Python target for now. Here is a short video showing how it works.

Some Library Releases

• thrift 0.19.0
• haxelib 4.0.3
• intl 0.3.2
• SScript 1.9.9
• tink_domspec 0.4.0
• hxdiscord 0.3.0
• tiledhx 1.0.0
• haxe-doctest 3.2.1
• lex 1.0.0
• 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

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

• Extended EnumFlags issue.
• [lua] Speed up StringTools.(starts|ends)With on Lua merged.
• [lua] Exit code 0 in case of error issue.
• [eval/lua] Reflect.hasField on function reference throws exception issue.
• [cppia] Create cppia output folder if it doesn’t exist pull request.
• [neko] Add boot -c flag to nekotools help pull request.
• [php] Vector + conditionals can break diagnostics issue.