Haxe Roundup № 479

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 Wrap-up

• You can find the complete video collection of the Haxe US Summit 2019 on YouTube. Each talk has a link to its slides, if available.
• Slides for the talks at Haxe Summit US 2019:
  • Haxe 4: What’s New - Aleksandr Kuzmenko.
  • Declarative UI Programming - Juraj Kirchheim and GitHub repo.
  • XhX: 10 Years of Haxe - Hugh Sanderson. Checkout Beestly a Windows app that automatically counts brood cells in images of honey bee frames.
  • Audio Development with Haxe - Thomas J Webb notes and slides.
  • Building Giffon with Serverless and Haxe - Andy Li.
  • Feathers UI - Josh Tynjala.
  • Scaling Well With Others - Adam Breece.
  • Titan: Macro-powered FFI for LuaJIT - Justin Donaldson.
• GitHub repo for cancelled Haxe intro workshop by Andy Li. It was cancelled because all the attendees were beyond beginner level, so they preferred the macros workshop instead.
• A bunch of photos from Haxe Summit US 2019:
  • Setting up!
  • Progress!
  • Time to go!
  • Alex Kuzmenko on the stage.
  • Justin Donaldson talking about Titan.
  • Juraj Kirchheim talking about Declarative UI Programming.
  • Hugh Sanderson did a AI/ML frontend with the Haxe C++ target with ease.
  • Joshua Granick is about to start us off with what’s new in OpenFL.
  • Thomas J Webb on audio development with Haxe.
  • Randy will talk about forGL.
  • Andy Li speaking about Serverless, Haxe, and Giffon.io.
  • Kicking off our last day with Juraj Kirchheim on Macros.
  • David and Alex talking about their cardio software.
  • FeathersUI ported to Haxe running in HTML/JS.
  • Join the swag exchange!

Community Updates

News and Articles

• The results of Stencyl Jam #18!
• Porting Dead Cells to mobile: An in-depth breakdown. Yes, the game goes mobile this summer! Checkout its teaser trailer!
• Darksburg - Dev Diary #1 and Survivor Introduction: Sister Abigail.
• Break N Take devlog by Alex Johansson.
• Promo page for a Pinball Miner game by Ben Simms.
• VSHaxe 2.10.0 has been released! Checkout the release notes for whats new.

In case you missed it

• Checkout the poll for “What language to support next in CodinGame”, Haxe being one of the options.
• 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!
• 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!
• 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

• [LD44] Arcade Wars timelapse.
• Building a Haxe Macro-powered Parser for the Web.

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

• 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

• Haxe developers wanted in Montreal to join Mino Games.
• 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

• None this week.

In case you missed it

• 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.

Code Examples

• Have an example you want to add? Consider contributing to the code.haxe.org cookbook.

Previews & Demos

Open Source

• Nanjizal has manually restored uniflash by Nickolay Artamonov from GoogleCode.
• How to use Cppia for testing with the latest Haxe release README by Nanjizal.
• Interpret by Jérémy Fa. It turns Haxe classes into scriptable/interpretable/hot-reloadable code using hscript. Here is also a thread about it on Haxe Community.
• Android “Hello World” application for the new JVM target by Valentin Lemière.
• Haxe dependency graph sources by Mark Knol.
• New simple benchmark of Craxe Http Server vs NodeJS.
• New repos by Kevin Leung:
  • Experimental Finite State Machine.
  • Experimental RealTime Gaming Library.
  • aws-dynamodb API.

Closed Source

• New video from Phantom Path - a story-driven puzzle adventure game by Kirill Poletaev.
• Bad squids up to no good.
• Mosaic effect and Total annihilation!!! in Jitter Sandbox by Syo.
• Short video demonstration of new car springs and environment mapping on car windows in unnamed racing game by Ed Ryzhov.
• New look of SUPER Cute Alien is ready. Huge update coming soon!
• ShoeBoxNodes demonstration video, showing it can encode scenes as a URL and message scenes as links, which in turn could also be loaded or generated in the desktop OSX and Windows apps.
• The cloak powerup, sprite flashes using shaders and remappable controls from Attraction Force.
• Simple grid movement by Techy Wrinkles.
• PizzaMakesGames has returned to development of Skullz 'n Skeletonz.
• Peter Achberger has updated HexSweep game.
• Legend of Zoldo: Lonks Slumber, with updated visuals for gameboy color in Armory3D.
• Some news about Hegemone Pass by Ingénoire:
  • Kickstarter demo is out now.
  • If you’ve tried the demo already, don’t forget to fill out the feedback survey, even if you didn’t complete it.
  • Hegemone Pass Kickstarter is live!
  • Demo v1.1 has been released!
• New GIFs and videos from Break N Take by Alex Johansson:
  • Footage of the new controls in action.
  • Power up flash.
  • A flurry of extra plasma balls.
  • Choosing a city to flatten.
  • Hacked a mouse and made it into a slider.
  • The game running on a custom cabinet.
  • Shop in Break N Take getting another overhaul.
  • Got a basic Narcissus controller working with the Firetablet.
• GIFs from SHMUP-ish game by MortMort:
  • Added a lot of behind the scene code and systems for the game.
  • GBC style.
  • Added the menus with a bit of animation.
  • Preview of some of the current scenes/menus & ui.
• Screenshots and GIFs from the Clunky Ball game by shakesoda:
  • First Clunky Ball run on the new (hashlink) framework.
  • Here it is in motion.
  • Local reflections around the ball.
• GIFs and screenshots from another by Alex Johansson that he is making with Stencyl - Corporate Salmon:
  • Corporate Salmon working on Android.
  • Mock-up of the new menus.
  • Got the swiping menus implemented.
  • The game running on custom cabinet made by Katy Marshall for GaMaYo #16 event.

Some Library Releases

• aws-dynamodb git
• robotlegs 1.2.7
• extype 2.0.0-rc.1
• buddy 2.10.1
• hxweixin-mini 0.1.0
• html-entities 1.0.0
• echo 0.5.0
• hxjava-ws 0.0.1
• redistHelper 0.3.4
• haxe-concurrent 2.1.0
• grig.midi 0.0.3
• phpoffice 0.3.0
• interpret 0.1.2
• haxe-ga 0.5.5
• android6permissions 0.1.1
• nova 0.3.3
• mini-mighty-engine 1.1.0-alpha
• mme-tools-library 1.1.0
• grip.pitch 0.0.1
• travix 0.13.1
• delay 1.2.3
• keyboard 1.0.3
• condition 1.2.5
• location 1.0.3
• hank 0.0.8
• openfl 8.9.1
• lime 7.5.0
• react-next 1.116.0
• falco 0.0.1
• Checkout the most recent library releases on HaxeLib.

Framework Updates

• [heaps] Per platform converts discussion.
• [hxgenjs] hxgenjs (an extensible JS generator for Haxe) now supports Haxe 4!

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 platform 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 new Sys API’s proposal.
• [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

61~ commits have been made to Haxe compiler in the last two weeks.

• [crypto] Add SCrypt and RC4 (ARC4) algorithms 0.3.0 release.
• Add @:bypassAccessor metadata merged.
• [hxcpp] Improve build times, linear instead of quadratic, relative to the number of files pull request.
• Add target.unicode define merged.
• Add support for universal expr in @:genericBuild with @:expr idea.
• Binary format for eval? discussion.
• Add jvm alternative output for the java target merged.
• [feature request] Macro property accessor discussion.
• [java] Add Java 8 classes merged.

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.
• [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!