Haxe Roundup № 452

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 Haxe Foundation have released Haxe 4.0.0-preview.5!
• The next Haxe Summit in Seattle is scheduled for 8th-10th May 2019.
• Nicolas has announced that he has started work on Heaps Android project setup.
• OpenFL releases HXP, a replacement for HXML & shell scripts.

Upcoming Events & Talks

• Show your interest in attending the Bavarian Haxe Meetup this November!
• David Mouton will be talking at this years BDX.io about “Haxe 2018 : plus t’en mets plus t’en as”, in Bordeaux, 9th Novemeber 2018.
• Add an upcoming event about Haxe.

Past Events Slides

• Aleksandr Kuzmenko’s Null Safety slides from last weeks first HaxeUp Session.

Job Offers & Bounties

• Sigma Software are looking for a Middle Haxe Developer to join them.
• Lars Doucet’s latest bounty for $100 is if you can come up with a nice way to unify HXCPP and HashLink C bindings.
• Binkies 3D are looking a Front-end Haxe Developer to join them.
• Bradmax is looking for a Haxe developer to join them.
• The HaxeFoundation are still looking for a compiler developer to join the team.
• Lars Doucet’s list of various open bounties.
• Add an available job involving Haxe.

Product Releases

• Anders Nissen has “juiced up” the effects for Stoneset game. You can download the dev version from Google Play.
• Limited Edition versions of Defender’s Quest are being made for the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita, which will be available for purchase from October 19th!

Videos

• HaxeUp Sessions October 13th videos are available on YouTube as separate vids or you can binge watch the full length Twitch video.
• Ian Harrigan, HaxeUI author talks about the current state of HaxeUI for desktop, web and mobile.
• Add a video related to Haxe.

Code Examples

• Figuring out Signed Distance Field rendering with Kha project by Louis Pearson.
• Have an example you want to add? Consider contributing to the code.haxe.org cookbook.

Previews & Demos

Open Source

• New ArmorPaint builds incoming! Painting 3M triangle mesh, all PBR maps at once!
• Ian Harrigan has released hxArduino, a custom Haxe generator to create Arduino specific C++.
• JigsawX now has Kha version.
• Juan Ernesto Rinaudo got bone animations example working with Kha. Source code can be found at his coding challenges repo.

Closed Source

• Touch`em-Up prototype made in less than a day using HaxeFlixel.
• Lars Doucet previews Defender’s Quest 2 first boss battle with dev assets.

Some Library Releases

• hxArduino git
• kha-sdf git
• minko-hx git
• textball 0.1.0
• json2object 3.4.0
• xmlgrammar 0.1.2
• react-next 1.102.2
• react-router-4 0.2.2
• react-media 0.0.3
• classnames 0.1.5
• reselect 0.0.5
• openfl 8.6.2
• vscode 1.28.0
• tokentree 1.0.12
• formatter 1.1.2
• hcc 2.0.2
• nova 0.1.1
• postxml 1.1.7
• haxework 0.8.2
• nekoboot 1.0.1
• enzyme 0.6.0
• swiftsuspenders 1.0.4
• phial 1.0.0
• saturn 1.0.0
• tink_testrunner 0.6.5
• tink_web 0.1.4
• springroll 1.0.0
• tink_stringly 0.3.1
• tink_unittest 0.5.7
• Head on over to HaxeLib to checkout the latest library releases.

Framework Updates

• [kha] Kha puts HashLink on Android merged.

People & Projects to support

• Lubos & contributors are creating Armory, an open source 3D game engine in Blender.
• OpenFL is creating free open source software.
• HaxeUI is creating an open source user interface libraries.
• HaxeFlixel is creating an open source, cross plaform 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.
• Lewis Lepton is creating tutorials, code and videos.
• Ilya Malanin is creating improvements for the Haxe IntelliJ IDEA plugin.
• Eric Bishton is creating the Haxe plugin for IntelliJ IDEA.
• Will Blanton is creating HaxeFlixel tutorials.
• Matthew Wallace is creating Haxe By Example tutorials.
• August Late is creating unique 2D lighting tech.

Updates from the Haxe core

Current Proposals & Discussions

• Add support for Default type parameters proposal.
• Add polymorphic this types proposal.
• Add Type parameter variance for Enums.
• Add Default values for enum parameters.
• Do you have an idea to improve Haxe? Consider creating a proposal.

Core Changes

23~ commits have been made to Haxe compiler in the last week.

• Reset static inits in macros when the context is reused pull request.
• Rework unification error printing merged.
• Intial multithreading API for the eval target commit.
• Move JQuery and SWFObject to HaxeLib issue.
• Add @:semantics to deal with native semantics merged.

You can get started using the latest features by downloading a nightly build of Haxe.

Take it easy everyone and have a good week!