Haxe Roundup № 477

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

Haxe US Summit 2019

• The list of Haxe Summit speakers had been updated!
• The Haxe Summit has moved to FlowPlay’s office. More details about the upcoming Haxe Summit will be blogged about soon.
• The Haxe Summit is Small Potatoes by Josefiene Pertosa.
• Haxe US Summit 2019 - Announcing the second Haxe Summit in the United States.
• The Haxe US Summit tickets are now available. Tickets are now $313.33.
• Andy Li - Building Giffon with Serverless and Haxe.
• Hugh Sanderson - XhX - 10 years of Haxe.
• Ryan Davis will talk about using Haxe for database engine building.
• Thomas .J Webb from Osaka Red LLC will talk about audio development with Haxe.
• “Eating Soup with a Fork: Retooling the Lime Stack to Embed an OpenFL App into a .NET Control” talk by David Hamiter and Alex Rothman from Ionosoft.
• Juraj Kirchheim will teach us about Declarative UI Programming in both a talk and a workshop.
• Josh Tynjala, the creator of Feathers UI, will be attending the Haxe Summit in Seattle.

Community Updates

News and Articles

• Vshaxe 2.9.0 has been released!
• Quick write-up of managing Haxe versions under Linux.
• A quick update on Dicey Dungeons: The Dice Are Cast.
• Game development as a hobby blogpost by Hello Lightbulb.
• Fresh ArmorPaint development builds are up (and available at ArmorPaint site)! New layer tools, UDIM, 2D paint, masking!

In case you missed it

• A few approaches to utilize Haxe and its targets written by Kevin Leung.
• class HaxeFoundation extends Manpower - Alexander Kuzmenko joins the HF as a full-time compiler dev and Aurel Bily joins as an intern for 6 months working on various projects!
• FeathersUI will be fully developed with Haxe and OpenFL by its author Josh Tynjala. He is planning to open a crowd-funding campaign for to fund it. Checkout his blog post about it and announcement on OpenFL forum.
• Haxe 4.0.0-rc.2 has been released!
• Dead Cells had been nominated for 2019 British Academy Games Awards in the Original Property category!
• Dicey Dungeons by Terry Cavanagh is nominated for Excellence in Design at Independent Games Festival 2019.
• Dead Cells is the Best Action Game of the year at The Game Awards.
• A new article from Jaime Domínguez, How to profile Haxe HXCPP with Visual Studio.
• The Joy of Haxe - FontStruct’s love affair with a neglected programming language.

Videos & Music

• Haxe - An understated powerhouse for software development talk given by George Corney.
• Kha Tutorial - EP123 - Scene Refine Library by Lewis Lepton.

In case you missed it

• A short interview with David Elahee about Double Kick Heroes made at PAX East 201.
• Add a video related to Haxe.

Upcoming Events & Talks

• The next Haxe Summit in Seattle is scheduled for 8th-10th May 2019.
• Haxe transpilation to PHP: static typing, arrow functions, metaprogramming and more by Aleksandr Kuzmenko on 14-15 June at Hong Kong Open Source Conference 2019.
• What’s new in Haxe 4 by Andy Li on 14-15 June at Hong Kong Open Source Conference 2019.
• Add an upcoming event about Haxe.

Job Offers & Bounties

• Julie Games are looking for a Haxe/C# programmer to join their team in Moscow, Russia.
• Playtika are looking for a Haxe programmer to work at their Minsk branch (Belarus). They are maintaining a Html5 version of their C# game engine, so required skills are: C#, Haxe, Javascript & WebGL. Please contact Ed Ryzhov for details.
• The Proletariat Inc team is growing. They are looking for artists, engineers and strong community people. Apply Here!
• 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.
• Lars Doucet’s latest bounty for $250 is if you can come up with a nice way to unify HXCPP and HashLink C bindings.
• Lars Doucet’s list of various open bounties.
• Add an available job involving Haxe.

Product Releases

• List of Stencyl Jam #18 games on itch.io.
• Anxious Soup is available on itch.io by Gabrielle.

In case you missed it

• OTO is a minimalist platform puzzle game by Lewis Lepton made during the notGDC Jam 2019. And he started development of a bigger version of OTO with more mechanics, more levels, sounds, music!
• fangoals.games is a game by MediaMonks made with Haxe and Pixi.js.
• You can playtest MONDAR’S DUNGEON - a game by Rat King and Jana Reinhardt.
• hidezip.com is a web app by Kevin Leung made with Haxe and Coconut that lets you camouflage an archive file to make it looks like an image file in your file explorer.

Code Examples

• tink_http local and AWS Lambda setup.
• Have an example you want to add? Consider contributing to the code.haxe.org cookbook.

Previews & Demos

Open Source

• Nanjizal has added a Haxe implementation of ray-triangle intersection test. Feel free to improve compare and consider.
• Genome2D Unity context is in alpha stage and can actually be tested if anyone is interested.
• Craxe now has a typedef and anonymous implementation as well as Generics and GADT. Source code for the typedef example is available on GitHub.
• Teaser for Thomas J. Webb’s talk for Haxe Summit.

Closed Source

• Ben Simms has tried to convert his game into a Pinball “machine”.
• Progress on ShoeBox successor.
• Syo has updated the debug panel in Jitter Sandbox.
• Need SloMo to take on 4 foe GIF from Lightspeed Bloodshed game by Jack Lewis.
• A few GIFs and videos from Alex Johansson’s new Stencyl game “Break N Take”:
  • Experimenting with new control schemes.
  • Slurping up civvies and breaking buildings.
  • Synthy soundtrack for Break N Take.
  • Bunker busting goes badly!
  • Love the unexpected ending of this title screen intro.
• The Clan of the Horse is now available in Northgard.
• News about Hegemone Pass game:
  • Video test, showing the bouncing feature.
  • Only a few more bugs to crush before start working on the demo’s tailored made content.
  • The game has Instagram account now!
  • A failed stealth attempt.
  • Camo Index: -10%.
• A few GIFs from Dead World Heroes:
  • Molotooooov!
  • Eat this!
  • Fighting demonstration.
• Couple of GIFs from Attraction Force by Ohsat Games: Powerups spawning and +1 powerups lets you extend your combos.
• Testing some cool effects for RPG Playground.
• Colin Lane is working on Slothing over it with Bennett Slothy for Stencyl game jam.

Some Library Releases

• safety 1.1.1
• signals 1.1.1
• location 1.0.1
• rtmidi-wrapper 1.1.0
• rtaudio 1.0.5
• fuse 0.0.16
• advanced-layout 0.9.1
• haxe-gl-matrix 1.0.0
• embed-js 0.1.1
• atom 1.36.0
• json2object 3.6.2
• Checkout the most recent library releases on HaxeLib.

Framework Updates

• [hscript] Add steppable/interruptible interpreter pull request.
• [lix] Update to version 15.3.12 to get all the Haxe language server features back.

People & Projects to support

• Robert Konrad, the Kha author, is creating Programming Toolkits.
• 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.
• 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

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

• Better error messages for \x and \u merged.
• haxe.Utf8 pull request.
• Remove @:fakeEnum merged.
• @:using should work for all types issue and discussion.
• Auto-generate defines and metas from Json files pull request.
• [php] haxe.io.Bytes.getString issues fixed.
• [php] StringTools.endsWith fails with Unicode fixed.
• Disallow UTF-16 surrogates in Strings merged.

In case you missed it

• [crypto] Release 1.0.1-alpha Better performance for Java, CSharp and Python. Release.
• [display] Macro reification support issue.
• Disallow \xNN for values higher than 127 fixed.
• [python] Resources are not embedded issue.
• Unicode sys tests pull request.
• -java-lib on non Java targets issue.
• Fast version of startsWith/ endsWith merged.
• @:using not working on interfaces issue & discussion.
• Static extension @:using doesn’t seem to work on abstract fixed.
• @:using should work on typedefs issue.
• Reconstruct do-loops pull request.
• [php] Improve generation of anonymous objects declaration with a 50% speed improvement issue.

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

Take it easy everyone and have a good week!