Haxe Roundup 728

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/events] The next Haxe Roundup Roundup Discord event is scheduled for Sunday June 15th at 18:30.
• [upcoming/events] Haxe in Production: Funplox Presentation is scheduled for Friday 27th June at 17:00 on Discord. ️
• Haxe 4.3.7 has been released! ️
• Vadym answers how to create a Set type in Haxe.
• IntelliJ Haxe plugin 1.7.2 has been released.
• Coroutines current state of affairs update from Simn.
• OpenFL scale9Grid article by Josh Tynjala.

Devlogs

• Fraymakers: New Assist on May 22nd! + More Assists, Rollback Rework, Updated HUD and Content Priorities - May 2025 Update.
• Wartales 1.0.41402 and 1.0.41340 patch notes.
• Northgard: Clan of the Hippogriff reveal article.

Releases

• None this issue.

Videos & Music

• 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.

Jobs, Bounties

• Flixel rendering overhaul paid work.
• HaxeFlixel developer needed for new fighting game “Vague Power”.
• Volka Games are looking for a Mobile and Web frontend developer positions to work on Taonga: The Island Farm.
• Add an available job involving Haxe.

Available for work

• Joey (PXshadow) creator of go2hx git is available for work.
• You can hire Tim Hely, a highly experienced Haxe & HaxeFlixel developer, with 20+ years of experience!

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.

Previews & Demos

Open Source

• A simple implementation of snake using pure lime and peote-view source code and html5 demo. Inspired by FlxSnake.
• Peote chat sample, a first test into offline-mode video.

Via Haxe Discord server

• MKI posts an progress update on genesis, portal and mana, a new shader language.

Git Repos

• LitteBigInt C++ optimizations merged.
• Ohmrun has Haxe speaking with Puredata in HashLink via Ammer.
• [go2hx] - Feature Incremental Cache update. - Create a combination of generic functions using overloaded features pull request. - Lets get net/http working! - Incorrect value assignment with blank identifier in tuple unpacking issue. - [hxdiscord] Generics are partially working now.
• Library that can play gltf animations in OpenFL-Starling, enables sprite-based animation authoring in Blender with gltf export and webp support. There is demo project haxe-gltf-pffanim2d git.
• Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.

Closed Source

• Object detection on a RaspberryPi using Haxe & OpenFL by Gepatto.

Via Haxe Discord server

• Jeremy has their Ceramic game updated for SDL3 running on Android!
• Toffee and team have released a small game called Nyanko Blast, made in just 10 days with HaxeFlixel.
• Battlenaut presents the final boss in Power Line Rider - The Antibeast!

Some Library Releases

• extension-iarcore 1.0.2
• comma 0.1.8
• hxpkg 1.6.1
• sasync 0.1.2
• electron 36.3.2
• genes 0.4.14
• hxtomlc17 1.2.2
• cpphelpers 1.0.1
• ini.hx 1.0.0
• HLWNative 1.2.0
• hxcat 0.0.1
• harrow 1.0.0
• extension-haptics 1.0.2
• hxbun 0.2.1
• flixel-waveform 2.1.1
• thrift 0.22.0
• vision 2.1.0
• prismcli 1.0.0
• extension-androidtools 2.2.1
• hxvlc 2.2.1
• Haxentric 1.2.1
• lumod 2.1.0
• haxe-gl-matrix 1.1.1
• extension-iapcore 1.0.1
• 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.
• Alexander Gordeyko is developing Pony, a Haxe open-cross-library.
• Andy Li is working around the Haxe ecosystem: CI, packaging, docs and learning materials.
• 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.

Updates from the Haxe core

Current Proposals & Discussions

• Develop constructor logic / better constructors proposal
• Enhance sys.net: Add IP address types, support IPv6 and more proposal.
• Add Defer keyword proposal.
• 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

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

• Generate ES6 arrows without this temp vars pull request.
• Do not run deprecation checks on cached types merged.
• Avoid some capture variable wrapping in non-loops merged.
• Do not store AtomicInt Gc memory in cpp.Pointer merged.
• [hxcpp] GC corrupts ArrayBase issue.
• Error positions in fake files are lost when using message.reporting=pretty issue.
• [nullsafety] Non-nullable check warnings pull request.
• [hxcpp] Allocation question for Linux issue.
• Allow disable parallel for benchmark purposes merged.
• Hashlink out of memory issue.
• [hxcpp] Int64 loses type within the array issue.
• Improve GC stats tracking merged.
• Make parallelism opt-in instead of opt-out for now pull request.
• Move the logic behind Define.get_signature to define.json pull request.
• Problem with interface field constraints merged.
• Assignment in condition warning pull request.
• [hxcpp] Update to Tracy 0.12.0 pull request.
• Reconstruct binops in return merged.
• Use parentheses when an arrow functions argument has a default value merged.
• @:noCompletion vs static extenison issue.
• [hl] Compiler hang on recursive typedef issue.
• Thoughts on updating HXCPP’s if/unless interpreter to use hscript parser.