Haxe Roundup 675

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

• HaxeUI v1.6 has been released!
• Variadic constructors in Haxe article by 0b1kn00b.
• Adobe Flex 2 running on OpenFL in JavaScript instead of SWF? article by Josh Tynjala.
• OpenFL devlog: NativeWindow, Lime’s Haxe and C++ bridge, and improved cleanup article by Josh Tynjala.
• Triggering Haxe functions from within OpenFL TextField HTML links article by Allan Dowdeswell.
• 💀Perilous Icons 1.1.0 by Oleg Dolya.
• LDtk, the free level editor has reached version 1.3.0! Check out the full patchnotes and upcoming JSON changes. Grab it for free!
• Dune: Spice Wars | April Development Update.
• [devlog] Fraymakers EA Update 0.5.9 - Optimization and Custom Content Error Detection post.
• 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

• Building a simple game in Armory 3D - Beginners tutorial part 2.
• Armory 3D can be like Unreal engine.
• Vallas Backrooms video by Merrak.
• 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

• Backend Haxe devs wanted to make PVP deltarune fangame listing.
• Ysbryd Games is looking for HaxePunk porters for a potential future title.
• 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.

Bounties

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

Product Releases & Announcements

• Nuclear Blaze is coming to Switch, PS4 and XBox in tomorrow 28th April!
• Wartales is now available on GOG.

Previews & Demos

Open Source

Community Previews

• Freestyle Engine Dev updates by Rapper GF | Freestyle Dev:
  • Freestyle Engine Dev Build 009: Metadata for songs are yaml file structures which parse faster than json and are much easier to read and edit.
  • Freestyle Engine Dev Build 0010: Crash Handling! The engine will attempt to continue when encountering errors if multiple pop up the engine can become unstable.

Via the Haxe Discord server

• m0rkeulv made the first beta 2023.1 release of Haxe IntelliJ plugin.

Git Repos

• Haxe Manager git - Manage Haxe compiler versions, now for linux and macOS.
• deepnightKISS git - KISS approach generic 2D game base on Haxe Lime with peote-view graphics.
• glot git - Haxe AST without the positional parameters, should eventually be self describing.
• cs2hx git - C# DLL to Haxe externs plus automatic Haxe compile-time definitions. ️
• reflaxe.Wren git - A Wren target for Haxe written with the Reflaxe library. ️
• Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.

Closed Source

• Layouting from Jitter Sandbox. ️
• Falling tower elevator effect quick video from Renaine.
• Cooking and balles by indigoUan.
• New Starfox 🐸🐰🦅🦊 remake updates by SnkyGames:
  • Working on redoing the objects with precise hitbox generation. Here’s a moaiship liftoff.
  • Physics can be a nightmare, I’ve been playing with the rigid bodies, when are they allowed to sleep? Here we can see the pillar wobble.
  • Added detection for the mouse position in 3D space and retrieving the Normal vector of a given mesh in the scene.

Via the Haxe Discord server

• ZwodahS is redoing some UI for their game. And UI is (mostly) hooked in.
• Just a simple dialog system by Blue2359☨

Some Library Releases

• urals-storage 0.1.2
• parcl 0.1.0
• ldtk-haxe-api 1.3.0-rc.1
• flixel-addons 3.1.0
• flixel 5.3.0
• extension-kizzyrpc 1.0.2
• extension-androidtools 1.8.2
• hxwren 1.1.0
• hx_webserver 0.0.2
• hxdefold 1.4.5
• urals-widget-web 0.0.1
• urals-view-web 0.0.1
• result-tools 0.0.1
• option-tools 0.0.2
• intl 0.9.1
• haxeui-pdcurses 1.6.0
• haxeui-heaps 1.6.0
• hxWidgets 1.11.0
• haxeui-winforms 1.6.0
• haxeui-pixijs 1.6.0
• haxeui-openfl 1.6.0
• haxeui-nme 1.6.0
• haxeui-kha 1.6.0
• haxeui-flixel 1.6.0
• haxeui-hxwidgets 1.6.0
• haxeui-html5 1.6.0
• haxeui-core 1.6.0
• glory 2.2.2
• flixel-window 1.1.5
• hxnodejs-serialport 1.4.0
• 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 support for Extension of Abstracts proposal.
• Add Shading proposal with alt macro solution.
• Add package alias proposal.
• 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

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

• Module resolution changes explained. ️
• RenameVars cleanup merged.
• hl analyzer since version 1.12.0 analyzer 20x slower issue.
• Recursive inline is not supported on enum abstract constructor issue.
• [cpp] Double throw generated in cpp Reflect.callMethod issue.
• [macro] Add resolveContextType merged.
• Go to definition problem with final assign issue.
• [hxcpp] __hxcpp_parse_int now parses hex numbers with wrapping as before pull request.
• Void as value error disappears on second compilation issue.