Haxe Roundup № 481

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

• Two millions copies of Dead Cells have been sold!.
• Checkout the recently released FAQ about the OpenFL & Feathers UI.
• [WIP] George Corney has opened sourced dts2hx git, a TypeScript definition to Haxe extern generator.
• An Interview with Playdigious - Developers of Dead Cells Mobile.
• New features landing in ArmorPaint: triplanar mapping, symmetry paint, texture viewer, native file dialogs and an initial .blend material importer.
• [WIP] Documentation about using Haxe and Unity together by Matthijs Kamstra.
• SUPER Cute Alien has been picked for Game Development World Championship Fan Favourite’s Week. You can vote with just one click. The game itself is also currently free.
• Two Hegemone Pass KickStarter articles: Big demo sneak peak and Demo v1.2 is now live with stretch goal updates.
• Unfortunately last Saturday there was a fire in one of the buildings behind Shiro Games office that spread to the surrounding buildings. Everyone is safe, but a quick look inside the office isn’t pretty. Hope that they’ll recover after such catastrophic event.

In case you missed it

• The results of Stencyl Jam #18!
• Porting Dead Cells to mobile: An in-depth breakdown.
• VSHaxe 2.10.0 has been released! Checkout the release notes for whats new.
• Haxe 4.0.0-rc.2 has been released!
• 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!

Videos & Music

• New Kha tutorial video by Lewis Lepton - EP127 - HTML canvas raccoon.
• Devlog video from Persevere and Motivate: Explaining the Changes - Haxe Web Parser, P&M Modules & more.
• Teen Titans Go: Burger & Burrito (CN Games) is made in OpenFL with love.
• Andy Li has started live streaming his daily dev work. You can watch it at his twitch channel.

In case you missed it

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

• Starscend is now available worldwide!

In case you missed it

• 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

• Alex has released HaxeUI tableview demo, available from GitHub.
• Have an example you want to add? Consider contributing to the code.haxe.org cookbook.

Previews & Demos

Open Source

• [WIP] Creative Coding Calendar by Matthijs Kamstra.
• HaxeUI works in electron with no issues at all.
• New HaxeUI feature: create and instantiate custom components from XML files in one line without using module.xml.
• Aidan Lee has been working on re-creating Haxe-DirectX bindings. All pointer/address stuff is now hidden behind wrapper objects and native resources are automatically freed when those wrapper objects are collected by the GC.

Closed Source

• Syo has added rotation for the ship in Jitter Sandbox.
• Survivor Introduction - Rose from Darksburg.
• New art style for Phantom Path and a new demo available on itch.io by Kirill Poletaev.
• Screenshot of in-game tools by Don’t Panic.
• A few photos of game cabinets by Alex Johansson and Katy Marshall presented at Feral Vector.
• Shielding is cool and all but have you ever tried PERFECT shielding?.
• New GIF and screen wrap in Attraction Force by Ohsat Games.
• “Stress testing” custom physics, (really only line collisions).
• “Over the hills and far away…” by Peter Achberger.
• A new GIF from Klung game made in Stencyl by Havana24.
• New interface design for CandidEditor.

Some Library Releases

• Haxicord 0.4.4
• nova 0.3.5
• mcover 2.2.1
• munit 2.3.4
• hxmath 0.16.0 Haxe 3 and 4 are both supported.
• exception 1.1.0
• json5mod 0.0.1
• redistHelper 0.3.9
• buddy 2.10.2
• electron 5.0.2
• deep-equals 1.0.0
• mini-mighty-engine 1.3.0-alpha
• classnames 0.1.6
• Checkout the most recent library releases on HaxeLib.

Framework Updates

• [nme] NME now supports gradle and multi-APK architecture support on Android.

In case you missed it

• [haxe-concurrent] Haxe-Concurrent v2.1.1 has been released.
• [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

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

• Lex dot-indents for #if and #elseif conditionals pull request.
• Respect @:pure(false) on var fields merged.
• Change String.iterator() to @:using pull request.
• Final keyword on ctors and static methods error messages merged.
• Add string comparison unit tests pull request.
• Rework iterator/iterable/array access resolving in for loops merged.
• [python] Fixes Unicode system tests merged.
• [hxcpp] Fix UCS2 string comparison merged.
• [hxcpp] Prevent infinite toString on anon structures pull request.

In case you missed it

• Add jvm alternative output for the java target merged.
• [cs] Add support for native cs type parameter constraints merged.
• Fix @:using for interfaces and abstracts merged.
• Use namespaced metadata for targets discussion.
• [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.
• Better error messages for \x and \u merged.
• Disallow \xNN for values higher than 127 fixed.
• Disallow UTF-16 surrogates in Strings merged.

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

Take it easy everyone and have a good week!