Haxe Roundup № 480

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

• SafeCrack by torcado has been ranked overall 10th place at Ludum Dare 44!

In case you missed it

• 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!
• Promo page for a Pinball Miner game by Ben Simms.
• VSHaxe 2.10.0 has been released! Checkout the release notes for whats new.
• 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

• Tech demo of Joaquin Bello’s Kha-based game framework running on an Android TV box.

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

• RPG Map II is a “tabletop RPG” oriented map maker, created with the “keep it clean & simple” philosophy in mind by Sébastien Bénard using Heaps, available for Windows and HTML5, with Mac support coming soon.
• Hegemone Pass Linux Demo v1.1 is now available.
• The beta version of Pinball Miner by Ben Simms is now available online.
• A new update for SUPER Cute Alien is live and it’s free for some time. Checkout the latest devlog video about his release.
• Dicey Dungeons v0.17 is now live on itch.io! Starring “Parallel Universe” and a new episode for the Warrior. Checkout the full update notes.

Code Examples

• None this week.
• Have an example you want to add? Consider contributing to the code.haxe.org cookbook.

Previews & Demos

Open Source

• Source code for Giffon.io, a crowd gifting platform, is available at GitLab.
• 2D Raycasting and Doom/Wolfenstein-like 2d raycast rendering in Kha. The source code for both is available on GitHub.

Closed Source

• CHEAP GOLF is now running on iOS with the latest Xcode. Thanks to Justo Delgado.
• New GIF from unnamed RPG game by Peter Achberger.
• Trying some custom normals in Armory3D by Disar.
• Couple of GIFs from BREAK N TAKE by Alex Johansson:
  • Black hole power up preview.
  • Smash and grab!
• Couple of GIFs from Leapin Lads by Cory Martin:
  • New GIF showing progress.
  • Crab.

Some Library Releases

• p2p git (Warning: Not production ready)
• A Haxe Wordpress Plugin Demo git
• interpret 0.1.4
• redistHelper 0.3.7
• haxe-files 1.2.0
• haxe-concurrent 2.1.1
• haxe-doctest 2.0.0
• keyboard 1.0.4
• tokentree 1.0.20
• formatter 1.7.0
• vscode 1.34.0
• screen_orientation 1.0.0
• mini-mighty-engine 1.2.0-alpha
• mme-tools-library 1.2.0
• haxe-gl-matrix 1.0.1
• Checkout the most recent library releases on HaxeLib.

Framework Updates

• [haxe-concurrent] Haxe-Concurrent v2.1.1 has been released.
• [checkstyle] Eval threads merged.
• [json2object] Single-line docs are eaten issue.
• [craxe] New anonymous support, initial dynamic support and haxe.Json merged.

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

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

• [cs] Add support for native cs type parameter constraints pull request.
• Fix @:using for interfaces and abstracts merged.
• Restrict @:allow(some.pack) to types located in the package only merged.
• Add the haxe define pull request.
• [matcher] Fixed position of matched enum arguments merged.
• Use namespaced metadata for targets discussion.
• Fix call-site inlining with type parameters merged.

In case you missed it

• [hxcpp] Improve build times, linear instead of quadratic, relative to the number of files pull request.
• Add target.unicode define merged.
• Binary format for eval? discussion.
• [crypto] Add SCrypt and RC4 (ARC4) algorithms 0.3.0 release.
• Better error messages for \x and \u merged.
• Disallow \xNN for values higher than 127 fixed.
• Add jvm alternative output for the java target merged.
• [java] Add Java 8 classes merged.
• haxe.Utf8 pull request.
• Disallow UTF-16 surrogates in Strings merged.
• Unicode sys tests pull request.

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

Take it easy everyone and have a good week!