Haxe Roundup № 370

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

• learn.haxe.org.
• The Haxe LD36 Roundup featuring 24 games.
• FlashDevelop and HaxeDevelop 5.2 have been released.
• Its possible that there will be no official Haxe 3.3 release, instead the core team might go straight for a 3.4-RC release.
• FontStruct.com is using more Haxe.
• mínt alpha-3.0, a UI library, has been released.
• differ 1.3.0, a separating axis theorem collision library, has been released.
• All about Fiery Squirrel’s OpenFL Graphic Manager.
• Haxe game engine code sharing proposal.
• Compiler Bugfix Adventures Issue 2.
• Historical stable Haxe releases made available as Docker containers.
• An Introduction to Functional Programming in OCaml online course.

Events

• Nicolas Cannasse will be releasing the newest Haxe target, HL, at Gamesys London, October 20th
• Add an upcoming event about Haxe.

Job Offers & Bounties

• Jefferson Wolfe are looking for a Haxe Developer in London.
• Charles is seeking Haxe & OpenFL developers to join their Interaction Developer team.
• Add an available job involving Haxe.

Podcasts

• Lostcasts EP189 - Lets discuss platforms, HTML5, Unity, Haxe.

Text Tutorials

• Start learning all about the Haxe/Python compiler target.
• Learn how to use sockets with Haxe and NodeJS.

Video Tutorials

• Kha tutorial - EP45 - Kha2D Animation Flip State.
• Kha tutorial - EP46 - States.

App & Game releases

• Wootmath Polls built with Haxe.
• NanoFL 4.0.0 released.
• hxjsondef helps you define Haxe typedefs from json.
• Gold release of Willy and Mathilda’s Houseboat Adventure: The Game available from itch.io.
• Streamline built using unreal.hx by Proletariat.
• King Marker Memory built with Kha.
• CatchMe built with Kha running on the Ethereum blockchain.
• Mixed World built with OpenFL available from the Play Store.
• BioDigit built with Kha.
• FODBOLD built with Kha available on itch.io.
• Kitten Crusher built with Kha available from itch.io.

Previews, Demos & Snippets

• Camera bounds using polygons built with luxe engine.
• Height-map to vertex height shader.
• Gameplay footage of Structural Integrity built with Kha.
• Kha tessellation examples.
• Armory bare-bones control preview.
• Armory fur tessellation preview.
• Armory tessellated displacement preview.
• Armory default build sizes are so small!
• Watch 5 minutes of Armory in action.
• Armory fully embedded into Blender preview.
• TicTacToe built with hexMachina.
• hexMachina DSL auto-completion in FlashDevelop.
• Moseying along through the Witches Woods in A Wicked Curse.
• HaxeUI OS previews, yes Ian’s that crazy!
• HaxeUI v2 hybrid and native drop-downs and tableviews working together using pure DOM.

Some library releases

• hxjsonast git
• json2object git
• spine-hx git
• flixel-spine-hx git
• openfl 4.2.0
• lime 3.2.1
• samcodes-notifications git for iOS and Android.
• tink_stringly 0.1.0
• asys 0.1.1
• tink_core 1.2.0
• HaxeContracts 0.13.3
• tink_url 0.2.0

Some library updates

• Steam controller support added to the steamwrap lib.
• hxparse now supports hexadecimal and decimal escape sequences - merged.
• HaxePunk 4.0.0 roadmap discussion and pull request.
• HaxePunk is now compatible with the latest versions of OpenFL and Lime.

Code Snippets

• Key-value iterator.
• VGA text renderer.

Updates from the Haxe core

New Proposals

• Do you have an idea to improve Haxe, go create a proposal.

Core Changes

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

• Compilation Server API - pr
• hscript adds Map support - pr
• hscript now supports do…while - merged

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

Take it easy everyone and have a good week!