Haxe Roundup 713

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

• [upcoming/event]The next Haxe Roundup Roundup Discord event is scheduled for July 21st at 18:45.
• ⛏️Cave/Glade Generator is now a part of Procgen Arcana article by Oleg Dolya.
• Avoid serving legacy JavaScript to modern browsers thread.

Devlogs

• Fraymakers Update v0.6.13 - Engine Upgrade Release.
• Tightrope Theatre 1.0.5 Rebalancing Update.
• Northgard patch notes for 04/07/24.
• Printersim Achievements Bug Fix post.

Videos & Music

• The Haxe Roundup Roundup Archive Episode 5
• The latest Asteroids Armory3D series video updates:
  • Rocks Life
  • Small Rocks
  • BG Animation
  • Wrap Effect
• Reminder that Squidly does a Haxe dev stream every weekday on Twitch. 6pm EST -> 12am EST Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday. 12pm EST -> 6pm EST Thursday/Friday.
• Add a video related to Haxe.

Jobs, Bounties

• Add an available job involving Haxe.

Available for work

• You can hire Tim Hely, a highly experienced Haxe & HaxeFlixel developer, with 20+ years of experience!

Job listings

• Clockwork Acorn is looking for an experienced Haxe developer to port their game Jetstream to iOS and Android.

Bounties

• Armory3D bounties are available.
• Keep an eye on the Funkin Bounties repo for future items.
• Squidly has opened up a bounties page for HaxeFlixel features.

Product Releases

• None this week.

Previews & Demos

Open Source

Community Showcase

Via the Haxe Discord server

• Sabe is working on a first person shooter inspired by Wolfenstein 3D, written in Heaps.io Haxenstein git.
• Jeremy Fa has a “game prototype working on the retroid pocket 4. Gamepad support on Android will be enabled in the next Ceramic release”.

Git Repos

• UZG git - A game about shooting zombies written in Heaps.io and Haxe.
• modvania git - Component-oriented, moddable metroidvania engine in HaxeFlixel.
• hxopenai_api git - Haxe bindings for OpenAI API.
• space-chaos git - Porting an old Flash game of mine to HTML5.
• HaxeSandbox git - Use podman to run untrusted Haxe code in a read-only container.
• Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.

Closed Source

Via the Haxe Discord server

• Jeremy Fa “switched to a circular shape for the magnetic impulsion that turns mirrors”.
• MKI has written a “simple graph calculator in Haxe as a simple demo for their WIP UI framework” call KumoUI. Find out more over on the projects Discord page.

Some Library Releases

• hxopenai_api git
• hxpkg 1.1.0
• haxework 2.1.1
• extension-androidtools 2.1.0
• hxvlc 1.7.1
• hxdiscord_gamesdk 0.1.0
• hxluagit 1.0.2
• hxArchipelago 0.9.0
• freeCategories 1.0.1
• hxScry 0.0.1-beta
• polybool 1.1.0
• colyseus-websocket 1.0.14
• 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

• Cast Specification changes for Haxe 5 discussion.
• Add Auto Closing proposal.
• Add additional mathematical constants and functions discussion.
• Additional syntax for safe navigation discussion.
• Add support for Typed metadata proposal.
• Add support for Extension of Abstracts proposal.
• Add package alias proposal.
• Add Integer data types proposal.
• Add Trailing Block Expressions proposal.
• Add Caller Tracking 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

17~ updates have been made to Haxe since the last issue.

• [4.3.5] Backport Json RPC diagnostics pull request.
• Null-coalescing operator cast before test against null issue fixed.
• [hashlink] Unexpected implicit cast to Int, from abstract(Null<Int>) issue.
• [hxcpp] HXCPP_CXX_STANDARD define issue.
• [hxcpp] CI - Updated version handling pull request.
• [neko] Pre-release of neko 2.4.0-rc.