Haxe Roundup № 482

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

• Green tests are nice, but what about coverage? A post on the state of coverage, mostly in VSCode.
• Dicey Dungeons news round-up: Let the good times roll.

In case you missed it

• Two millions copies of Dead Cells have been sold!.
• [WIP] George Corney has opened sourced dts2hx git, a TypeScript definition to Haxe extern generator.
• An Interview with Playdigious - Developers of Dead Cells Mobile.
• 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.
• The results of Stencyl Jam #18!
• 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 videos by Lewis Lepton:
  • Kha Tutorial - EP128 - Texture Raccoon.
  • Kha Tutorial - EP129 - Raccoon engine clean up.
  • Kha Tutorial - EP130 - Depth Raccoon.
  • Shader Tutorial - EP016 - Warp lines.
• RPG Playground video roadmap for June 2019.
• A short video tutorial by JayAnAm about how to build Armorpaint with Visual Studio 2017.
• Jérémy Fa has shared a short video of his generative art in action.
• Checkout Total Party Kill’s reveal trailer.
• Chipzel shared a short video with the music she is making for Dicey Dungeons.
• Northgard - Official Consoles Announcement Trailer. Northgard will come out on Nintendo Switch, PS4 and Xbox One at the end of September.

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

• Poptropica game are looking for a remote Haxe developer to convert Flash games to web and mobile.
• 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

• New Dead Cells - Action Game of the Year physical editionis coming to PS4 and Nintendo Switch!
• “Charm Farm - Forest village” is a mobile farm game made with Haxe, OpenFL legacy and many other great open-source libraries made by Haxe community, which is now available world-wide on iOS and Android!
• Total Party Kill by Jussi Simpanen is coming to iOS, Android, PC and Mac on 3rd of July.

In case you missed it

• Starscend is now available worldwide!
• 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

• This week Matthijs Kamstra has worked on multiple cool things, such as:
  • Documentation of Haxe and most of the system targets.
  • Rewriting documentation on Haxe and Unity.
  • And a Creative Coding experiment with Bruce Lee quotes.
• Source code for #Alakajam! 6 entry by Aurel Bily. Playable version and game’s soundtrack are also available.

Closed Source

• A bunch of GIFs from Alex Johansson’s BREAK N TAKE game:
  • Incoming!
  • Ricocheting through buildings and slurping up civvies!
  • Sooo close!
  • A red death barrier.
  • When you’ve completed the objective, the death wall disappears!
  • Some footage of the Roto-Shot
  • Trimmed some of the fat.
  • The ball turns into a homing missile to pick the final block off.
• Couple of images from “Barcode Battler” by Ben Simms:
  • You can now draw and save pixel images to convert into barcodes and scan.
  • Redoing some of the art.
• Couple of GIFs from Renaine which you can wishlist on Steam :
  • Aine just got two new downwards attacks!
  • Aine is breaking her fall
• Ohsat Games is currently building some stages for Attraction Force. Plus jumping around the game GIF.
• 'Damilare Darmie Akinlaja is working on styleable components for his native UI framework.
• Unfinished beat-em-up prototype made by Ingénoire for the #FragmentJam.
• Towers! What are they protecting?
• GIF from the game Lewis Lepton is making with Kha.

Some Library Releases

• event-types 0.6.0
• location 1.0.4
• condition 1.2.6
• fuse 0.0.18
• vscode 1.35.0
• argan 1.0.3
• sugar 1.0.1
• bind 0.4.2
• haxe-files 1.2.1
• necurl 0.1.0
• rest-client 0.3.0
• formatter 1.7.1
• tokentree 1.0.21
• nova 0.3.6
• loggy 0.1.3
• 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 support for Readable and Writable constraints proposal.
• [RFC] Xml Dsl’s discussion.
• Add new Sys API’s proposal.
• 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

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

• Add haxe.Constraints.NotVoid pull request.
• [hxcpp] Fix infinite array toString recursion merged.
• Handle infinite recursion in Std.string pull request.
• Closure in closure breaks abstract method fixed

In case you missed it

• Add jvm alternative output for the java target merged.
• Rework iterator/iterable/array access resolving in for loops merged.
• [hxcpp] Prevent infinite toString on anon structures 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 merged.
• Add target.unicode define merged.
• Lex dot-indents for #if and #elseif conditionals 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!