Haxe Roundup № 367

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

• The HaxeFlixel Indiegogo fundraiser currently stands at 196% funded, see how the HaxeFlixel community have paid their Open Source taxes.
• Building 42 games within a year.
• Interview with Kevin Field, head developer of Willy and Mathilda’s Houseboat Adventure.
• Is Haxe for you? by Dan Korostelev.
• HaxeFlixel turns 5, with cake.
• Component filtering is BLAZING fast with macros.
• Register to play test Sakura.

Video Tutorials

• Kha Tutorial EP35 - Quit.
• Kha Tutorial EP36 - Delta Timer.
• Kha Tutorial EP37 - Player Movement Delta
• Kha Tutorial EP38 - Setup FFMPEG
• Kha Tutorial EP39 - Video
• Kha Tutorial EP40 - Kha/Kode Studio Changes

Text Tutorials

• Python Tutorials covering an introduction, the basics, going untyped and using Syntax.pythonCode.

Recent Talks

• Dan Korostelev talks about Haxe at NevosoftRu recording and slides.
• Francis Bourre talks about his 10 favorite Haxe features slides.

Code Snippets

• Override core standard types via macros, see original git comment for hint.

IDE Updates

• Vaxe adds python2/3 support.

Community Questions

• How do you generate super call with arguments in Haxe macro?
• How do you get the number of constructor arguments?
• How do you add a new key to object with variable?

Events

• Add an upcoming event which will be about Haxe.

Job Offers & Bounties

• Sydney Freelancer for generative art installation.
• Gamesys London Job.
• Haxe opportunity in London.
• Add an available job which involves Haxe.

Previews, Demos & Snippets

• Jumping Sakura.
• Hectic hedgehogs in Sakura.
• hexMachina 0.5.0 isomorphic NodeJS & Neko apps preview.
• Hegemone Pass tutorial.
• Procedurally generating a corridor.
• Procedurally generating ship interiors experiment.
• Procedurally generating ship interiors completed.
• First test of internal structure of ships.
• Space filling a space ship.
• Look at things scroll, using luxe engine.
• Procedurally generating markov ballpool chains.
• Profile all the shaders!
• Preview of the upcoming Armory trailer.
• Things are coming together.
• A Wicked Curse title screen.
• A Wicked Curse Big Bad Wolf Boss fight.
• Glorch has been greenlit on Steam.
• Procedurally generating internal structure of a space ship.
• A Wicked Curse whale dungeon.
• Hegemone Pass website launch.
• N°7 preview created with luxe engine.
• google-apps-scripts type definitions already in use.

Devlog updates

• Hegemone Pass devlog #1.
• Kryce development devlog.

App & Game releases

• Word Search created with HaxeFlixel available from Amazon.
• WordMix created with HaxeFlixel featured on Amazon.
• Volcano Escape created with HaxeFlixel available from itch.io.
• Paperguy created with HaxeFlixel available from itch.io.

Some library releases

• docker-haxe git
• heroku-buildpack-haxe git
• VectorAsset 1.1.0
• waud 0.6.7
• haxe-doctest 1.0.1
• jstack 0.1.0
• hexMachina 0.5.0
• buddy 2.5.2
• dataclass 0.21.3
• utest 1.5.0
• lime 3.0.3
• openfl 4.0.3
• swf 2.2.3
• hxInflate 0.3.0
• exceljs 0.14.0
• hxslam 0.3.0
• codegen 1.3.1
• codemirror 1.1.0
• hant 3.6.2
• jsfl 1.2.4
• refactor 3.4.1
• stdlib 2.1.4
• xpcom 1.3.3
• HaQuery 6.7.3
• stx_chunk 0.0.6
• moon-ai 0.1.0
• extension-android-immersive 1.0.2
• hxmake 0.0.1
• hxease 1.0.0
• nanotest 1.0.1
• haxe-ws 0.1.0
• luce 0.8.4
• aws-sdk-neko 0.1.0
• knockout.hx 3.3.1
• HaggleVNE 1.0.0
• geojson 0.9.5
• libsetup git
• haxeui-nme git
• haxeui-kha git
• haxeui-luxe git
• haxeui-hxwidgets git
• haxeui-openfl git
• haxeui-flame git
• haxeui-pixijs git
• haxeui-html5 git
• google-apps-script git
• chrome-app 52.0.0
• chrome-extension 52.0.1
• raymp 1.0.1
• away3d 1.3.2
• monsoon 0.3.0
• path2ereg 0.1.0
• jquery-uipages 0.0.5
• tink_await 0.1.6
• flixel 4.1.1
• as3hx 1.0.3
• airconsole 1.0.0
• signal 1.0.2
• khage 0.0.4
• samecodes-chartboost 1.0.5
• pixijs 3.1.3

Updates from the Haxe core

New Proposals

• Add Any.hx type to standard library.

Core Changes

205 commits have been made to Haxe compiler in the last six weeks.

• Improve StringBug.add to increase performance.
• DCE adjustments for Lua.
• HaxeLib now powered by AWS CloudFront.
• as3hx gets recent surge of fixes and improvements by SlavaRa - commit list.
• The Any.hx type has been added to Haxe, available from a nightly build.

You can start using the latest features by grabbing a nightly build of Haxe.

Take it easy everyone and have a good week!