Haxe Roundup № 460

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

• Dead Cells is the Best Action Game of the year at The Game Awards.
• A quick update on the next Dicey Dungeons release from Terry Cavanagh.
• Haxe as one language for websites?
• How to pattern match an array with an unknown length?
• New major Armory3D engine will come out this month for Blender v2.8. In v0.6, Armory3D will target D3D11 on Windows by default which gives a slight perf boost. In v0.7 it will default to Metal for Apple devices, then Vulkan!
• New devlog from Oleg Dolya about his progress on Medieval Fantasy City Generator.
• More details about Sébastien Bénard’s forthcoming talk at GDC 2019 have been released!
• Here’s another language rating report featuring Haxe, from August by RedMonk.

In case you missed it

• Stencyl has been added to GameAnalytics collection of SDKs.
• Release 1.1 of the Haxe Toolkit plugin for IntelliJ IDEA, Android Studio and other JetBrains products is now available.
• The Joy of Haxe - FontStruct’s love affair with a neglected programming language.

Upcoming Events & Talks

• The next London Haxe Meetup, Show and Tell, will take place on the 6th of February at North West House, Marylebone!
• Sébastien Bénard will be talking about Dead Cells design at GDC 2019.
• The next Haxe Summit in Seattle is scheduled for 8th-10th May 2019.
• Add an upcoming event about Haxe.

For Hire

• Alexander Gordeyko is currently looking for a job as a fullstack developer. Checkout his GitHub account.

Job Offers & Bounties

• Sigma Software have updated their job post and now they are looking for a Senior Haxe Developer.
• CODEFATHER company (Moscow, Russia) is looking for JavaScript/Haxe programmer who will work on extending game engine built with Pixi.js/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 $250 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.

Product Releases

In case you missed it

• OPEN BETA of SUPER Cute Alien is available. Play for free until 01/01/2019!
• stepbystep game by Evgeny Petrov is now available on Steam.
• Simon Weis has submitted his game to alakajam November challenge.
• Evil Dead: The Evil Cartridge is a Html5 game by Joaquin Bello made with Kha is released on Armor Games.
• Windows and Mac versions of Solid Aether are released on Steam. The list of technologies used for this game.

Videos

• Kha Tutorial 100 - Shader Playground.
• Kha Tutorial 101 - Shader Playground UI.
• Kha Tutorial 102 - Object Entity Refine Library.
• Add a video related to Haxe.

Code Examples

• New sample for Heaps engine by Tong has been merged into the official repo, try out the demo Helpers.

In case you missed it

• Working with zip files.
• [tink_web] Making type safe REST API calls with the Haxe tink_web library.
• [tink_http] Cross-platform HTTP fetch example.
• Have an example you want to add? Consider contributing to the code.haxe.org cookbook.

Previews & Demos

Open Source

• Nanjizal has created horizontal and vertical sliders with Kha, with sources available on Github.
• Tong has built a temperature/humidity data logger with Haxe and NodeJS, with sources available on Github. He is planning to port the arduino code to hxArduino.

Closed Source

• Hmm…
• jmw327 is creating a farming SIM called “Frontier Story” with Haxe + Heaps. He has also opened a Patreon page and Discord server.
• Facial expressions in SUPER Cute Alien.

Some Library Releases

• deepstate 0.10.0
• material-ui 0.7.3
• react-types 0.5.1
• hxWebSockets 1.1.0
• gluon 0.0.1
• hxArduino 1.0.0
• wechatcore 1.3.4
• materialize.hx 0.0.2
• osis 0.8.0
• anette 0.0.5
• wrapgen 0.0.4

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

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

• Define -D haxe4 flag commit.
• [js] -D analyzer-optimize breaks exception handling fixed.
• [js] Make Promise interact properly with Thenable commit.

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

Take it easy everyone and have a good week!