Haxe Roundup № 478

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

• New post on Haxe blog: Let’s Have Breakfast in Seattle by Josefiene Pertosa.
• forGL helps you learn computer programming with no prior experience needed. It will be presented at the Haxe US Summit 2019 in Seattle.
• Norwegian code magazine kode24 has written an article about Hydropower game by Logic interactive.
• Checkout the poll for “What language to support next in CodinGame”, Haxe being one of the options.
• The Hegemone Pass 0.9 Windows and Linux Demos are online! Plus a new post detailing the demo. Please give feedback or report bugs!

In case you missed it

• Vshaxe 2.9.0 has been released!
• 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

• Dev Cast about the upcoming Unity Context for Genome2D by Peter Stefcek.
• Three new videos from Lewis Lepton:
  • Kha Tutorial - EP124 - Library to Engine.
  • Kha Tutorial - EP125 - Blank Raccoon Project.
  • Kha Tutorial - EP126 - Random Sounds Raccoon.

In case you missed it

• “Haxe - An understated powerhouse for software development” talk given by George Corney.
• 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

• Joshua Stone has released “Finn’s Fantastic Food Machine” on Kongregate. Checkout the release trailer.
• SakeRow: Shadows Die Nonece - a HaxeFlixel game on newgrounds created Alon.
• [ld44] Dunkin’ Dogoos made by shakesoda and Landon Manning for Ludum Dare 44 with Haxe and LÖVE.
• [ld44] Vumpires: Night of the Bat-Men is a game made for Ludum Dare 44 by Tim I Hely.
• [ld44] Life Stock Exchange is a game by Michael Miriti made for Ludum Dare 44 with Haxe and OpenFL.
• [ld44] SafeCrack created by Torcado made for Ludum Dare 44.
• [ld44] Arcade Wars created by Aurel made for Ludum Dare 44.
• [ActualAdultGames] Extreme Lawn Mowing by Gauthier B made for the Actual Adult Games Jam.

In case you missed it

• 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

• Creative coding art by Jérémy Fa: Is he upset?.
• Instead of participating in Ludum Dare, Jérémy Fa has added tilemap/TMX support to Ceramic engine.
• Craxe now has Map<K, V> implementations. Also OOP has been improved by allowing overriding methods. The next step will be benchmarking Craxe’s HTTP server and NodeJS.
• Wrenegade (a toolkit for developing backends for embedded Wren based projects) by 'Damilare Darmie Akinlaja is now available for consumption!
• Lewis Lepton has added playable examples for the raccoon engine he is building in Kha tutorial series.

Closed Source

• New screenshot from Phantom Path game by Kirill Poletaev.
• The Stun Ball stuns all enemies on the screen and the Battery powerup overcharges your suit in Attraction Force game by Ohsat Games.
• Fantomon has shared a GIF showing the UI of the game he is working on.
• Survivor Introduction - Runolf from Darksburg.
• A couple of GIFs from the WIP game by shakesoda, Items have momentum now and It works in reverse, too.
• New GIFs and screenshots and from Alex Johansson’s new Stencyl game “Break N Take”:
  • Happy with how the new control interface looks.
  • DROP SHOP rebrand.
  • Shop overhauled along with the rest of the in game UI.
  • While the world ends, 3 survivors chill out.
  • Quick look at the intro screen for BREAK N TAKE.
  • Credits cinematic implemented.
  • Break N Take is a flipped version of breakout.

Some Library Releases

• condition 1.2.2
• transition 1.0.3
• notifier 1.0.6
• flixel-demos 2.7.1
• flixel-templates 2.6.2
• phpoffice 0.2.1
• nape-haxe4 2.0.21
• nova 0.3.1
• mini-mighty-engine 1.0.0-alpha
• uuid 1.0.0
• mme-tools-library 1.0.0
• tink_io 0.7.0
• tink_chunk 0.3.0
• tink_core 1.22.0
• tink_macro 0.17.5
• crypto 1.0.2-alpha
• haxe-doctest 1.3.0
• electron 5.0.0
• Checkout the most recent library releases on HaxeLib.

Framework Updates

• [kha] Optimize Android Java Float32Array, now 6x faster pull request.
• [linc_uv] A better UV binding by kevinresol merged.
• [as3hx] Changes for converting Moonshine IDE AS3 source code pull request.

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

• [RFC] Block Strings discussion.
• 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

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

• Remove --gen-hx-classes merged.
• Add a warning for conditions in #if containing dots not enclosed in parens issue.
• Mark native properties (typed as plain fields) as having side-effectful reads issue.
• [js] Replace setTimeout timeout Int with Float merged.
• [lua] Sys.environment segfault issue.

In case you missed it

• Better error messages for \x and \u merged.
• haxe.Utf8 pull request.
• Disallow UTF-16 surrogates in Strings merged.
• Disallow \xNN for values higher than 127 fixed.
• Unicode sys tests pull request.
• @:using should work for all types issue and discussion.
• -java-lib on non Java targets 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!