Haxe Roundup № 455

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

Community Updates

Haxe benchmarks site by Kevin Leung covering a range operations across all compiler targets.
Small poll from Haxe_ru about which IDE users choose for Haxe Development. Only afew hours left to submit your preference.
Lars Doucet had doubled the bounty for creating a common Haxe native extension method/format that bridges both HXCPP and HashLink.
The Joy of Haxe - FontStruct’s love affair with a neglected programming language.
Super Cute Alien won 3rd Place on Potenciate contest!
HashLink 1.8 has been released. Fixes a bug with Haxe 4.0.0-preview.5 and a few additional improvements.
The next Haxe Summit in Seattle is scheduled for 8th-10th May 2019.

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 $200 is if you can come up with a nice way to unify HXCPP and HashLink C bindings.
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.

[tink_http] Cross-platform HTTP fetch example.
Simple Heaps example showing 3D scene with 2D collisions.
Nicolas Cannasse has collected a set of Heaps full open source games examples.
Have an example you want to add? Consider contributing to the code.haxe.org cookbook.

SlavaRa continues his work improving HaxeDevelop with:
- Automatic function generation.
- Autocompletion for default function parameters.
- Autocompletion for abstract types.
- He also needs your feedback and wants to know what features you’re missing in HaxeDevelop.
Nanjizal had ported RectPack2D to Haxe.
Debug rendering for box2d in Heaps. And it’s already merged into the box2d repo.
Palette swapping example made in Kha by Sidar Talei.
Lewis Lepton has updated PixelSpirit deck to the latest changes. Source code can be found on GitHub.
Acid have started a new open source game, a single player 2D tactical RPG.
Juan Ernesto Rinaudo has implemented Conway’s game of life in a fragment shader using Kha.

Kirill Poletaev shares a new gameplay clip of his upcoming puzzle exploration game made with YUME engine, which is written in Haxe and C++.
Evgeny Petrov is working on his new game called StepByStep which is a turn-based programming puzzle platformer.
Lizard archers are really dangerous in “Castle Woodwarf 2”, a game made with Stencyl.
Mission mechanics demonstration from “Dead World Heroes” game.
A year of development makes a lot of difference. That’s really true in case of Renaine game.
Alex Lanzetta had ported “I’d Change the World for You” game to Haxe.
Alex Lanzetta had added float textures to his Haxe/Lime engine.
Simon Weis has recreated the lockpicking mechanic similar to that found in Skyrim.

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.

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

Add custom iterator benchmarks pull request.
Add haxe.Log.debug pull request.
HTML Extern improvements merged.
Removing @:functionCode from the standard library “if we ever want to have a JVM target” comment.
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!