Haxe Roundup № 453

Welcome to the latest edition of the Haxe Roundup. Haxe is a high level, strictly typed programming language and cross-compiler.

Community Updates

The Joy of Haxe - FontStruct’s love affair with a neglected programming language.
The Haxe Foundation have released Haxe 4.0.0-preview.5!
The next Haxe Summit in Seattle is scheduled for 8th-10th May 2019.
The FranceInfo Junior app (l’Appli franceinfo junior) from French Public Radio, made with Haxe, an educational media tool for teachers & their classes!
HaxeFlixel discord server is now a general Haxe server. There are channels for every major game framework. And if you want to learn more about one of them, then just join!.
Exploring libffi with Neko.
More Neko Rosetta Code and a question about scope and GC.
Why is compiling to different languages important?.
DeadCells might be comming to Android?

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.

Shiro Games are looking for a Game Designer and a Senior Game Programmer to join them.
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.

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!

HaxeUp Sessions October 13th videos are available on YouTube as separate vids or you can binge watch the full length Twitch video.
Add a video related to Haxe.

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.

Lubos Lenco is working on improving render performance and also on a new race-track tutorial for Armory 0.6.
Matthijs Kamstra is making hxArduino git work on osx and writing documentation.
Another step to making Flixel Studio a full-blown game editor for HaxeFlixel.
HxTelemetry git (client-side library for hxScout) now has a set of CI tests powered by TravisCI and Docker covering three different versions of Haxe.
Screenshots by Oleg Dolya of his Medieval Fantasy City Generator made with Haxe, OpenFL and Away3D for procjam.
Screenshots #1 and #2 from ArtsTechEngine for 7dfps by Adam Parrott.
Fiery Squirrel has been updating his previous OpenFL libraries and improving documentation.
@SlavaRa is working on improving autocompletion for switch/case syntax in HaxeDevelop.
@nanjizal continues his work on Trilateral, which is a library for drawing lines and shapes with Triangles and added Tess2 implemention for handling holes in shape fills.

Gamedevbynight has started building his own particle system with Haxe and Kha.
“Everyone dreams about a day like this” video from the game Dead World Heroes.
Dial-A-Platformer is a simple level editor with a hero with customizable jump properties and abilities.
Weekend exercise for Elias Ku implementing flex container layouts from scratch.

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.

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

HTML Extern improvements merged.
HashLink Interp branch [wip] pull request.
Removing @:functionCode from the standard library “if we ever want to have a JVM target” comment.
Reset static inits in macros when the context is reused pull request.
Rework unification error printing merged.
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!