Haxe Roundup № 484

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

• The Official release of Haxe 4.0.0-rc.3! has been announced, including the new JVM target, improved Unicode support and IDE services!
• Haxe 4.0.0-rc3 release overview post & video by Game From Scratch.
• Vshaxe 2.13.0 and a brand-new extension for the lix package manager are now available in the VSCode marketplace.
• The Kickstarter campaign of Feathers UI for Haxe & OpenFL will start next week!
• SlavaRa continues working on new features for FlashDevelop/HaxeDevelop by adding improved support for anonymous structures and support for auto-values for enum abstracts.
• ArmorPaint 0.5 vs 0.6 under the hood stats - 23% faster painting, 34% less gpu mem for layer storage, 43% less gpu mem for mesh storage, 72% faster startup, 59% faster .obj import.
• Small Untitled RPG Devlog 4 by Peter Achberger.

In case you missed it

• Quick news from SUPER Cute Alien, the game got second place at Game Development World Championship’s Fan Favourite Week 5 and it got featured on PressOver.
• Green tests are nice, but what about coverage?. A post on the state of coverage, mostly in VSCode.
• Two millions copies of Dead Cells have been sold!.
• 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

• Andy Li has been working on (and also streaming) migration of Haxe compiler CI to Azure Pipelines.
• Haxe US Summit 2019 and HKOSCon 2019 recordings are now available on Haxe site!
• The latest new videos by Lewis Lepton:
  • Shader Tutorial Series - EP019 - Scanning lines.
  • Shader Tutorial Series - EP020 - Moving light.
  • Kha Tutorial Series - EP133 - Tiled tmx.
  • Kha Tutorial Series - EP134 - Tiled raccoon.

In case you missed it

• Northgard - Official Consoles Announcement Trailer. Northgard will come out on Nintendo Switch, PS4 and Xbox One at the end of September.
• Add a video related to Haxe.

Event Slides and Media

• The slides for the “What’s new in Haxe 4” talk by Andy Li (from HKOSCon 2019).
• The slides for “Haxe transpilation to PHP: static typing, arrow functions, metaprogramming and more” talk by Aleksandr Kuzmenko (from HKOSCon 2019).
• A couple of photos from HKOSCon 2019, Andy Li presenting Haxe 4 and Aleksandr Kuzmenko presenting the Haxe PHP target.

Upcoming Events & Talks

• None this week.
• Add an upcoming event about Haxe.

Job Offers & Bounties

• Room 8 Studio (Kiev, Ukraine) are looking for a C#/Haxe developer.
• Inno Games are looking for a Frontend (Haxe) developer (btw, you could apply through Dan Korostelev, who is working at Inno Games).
• 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!
• 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

• Anders Nissen has released his free mobile puzzle game Stoneset on Android!
• The iOS version of Dead Cells is now available for pre-order with a special -10% discount!

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.

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

• How curved alleys would look in Medieval Fantasy City Generator by Oleg Dolya.
• Screenshot of the document generator for ShoeBoxNodes by Hendrik Schoenmaker.
• Some new docs for sys targets from Matthijs Kamstra:
  • How to create CLI (Command Line Interface).
  • How to start a new Process in terminal.
  • ProgressBar example.

Closed Source

• Meet Varag! One of the Survivors in Darksburg.
• Two short videos from BREAK N TAKE by Alex Johansson, game development can be fun and "in its proper context".
• Ancient city gate from Phantom Path by Kirill Poletaev. Now animated.
• New aim bullet card in Heck Deck letting you shoot in any direction.
• Terry Cavanagh finished up the Jester Parallel Universe episode this week. Plus random equipment ideas.
• The oldschool high score table in Attraction Force is now a bit prettier. And a clip of some more action!
• Most frustrating game ever by Nicolas Counil and Benoit Beaudet.
• Things are getting flippy in Renaine.
• Battle system rework WiP + animated bgs from Hegemone Pass.
• New images and GIFs from “Barcode Battler” by Ben Simms:
  • Toying with the idea of drawing coloured images.
  • A quick video of a user journey coming together.
  • New assets and theme.
  • Testing out the game on mobile.
  • “Battle Log” and “Escape” features.

Some Library Releases

• OWEL git Open Web Expression Language for Haxe web development
• slug git Haxe port of npm slugify
• callfunc 0.1.0 Foreign function interface library using libffi
• hxtsdgen 0.1.1
• highlighter 0.6.0
• pako 1.0.7
• flixel 4.6.2
• mcli 0.1.7
• dox 1.2.0
• react 1.6.0
• extype 2.0.0-rc.3
• electron 5.0.4
• nova 0.3.7
• StoryblokClient 0.0.2
• formatter 1.8.0
• tokentree 1.0.22
• json2object 3.6.3
• hxnodejs 10.0.0
• vshaxe 2.13.0
• Checkout the most recent library releases on HaxeLib.

Framework Updates

• None this week.

In case you missed it

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

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 Self access for abstracts proposal.
• 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

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

• [hxcs] Allow using -D hxcs.DEFINE and add documentation pull request.
• [cs] Enable sys.thread API merged.
• Treat Any as a wildcare type. Just like Dynamic pull request.
• Specify Reflect.copy(null) merged.

In case you missed it

• [cs] Add support for .NET core -D netcore_ver merged.
• [cs] Fix net-lib parsing merged.
• [hxcs] Add .NET core netlibs merged.
• Add haxe.Constraints.NotVoid pull request.
• Add jvm alternative output for the java target merged.
• Rework iterator/iterable/array access resolving in for loops merged.
• [cs] Add support for native cs type parameter constraints merged.
• [hxcpp] Improve build times, linear instead of quadratic, relative to the number of files merged.
• Better error messages for \x and \u merged.
• Disallow \xNN for values higher than 127 fixed.

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

Take it easy everyone and have a good week!