Haxe Roundup № 485

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

• Kickstarter: Feathers UI for Haxe and OpenFL has officially launched!
• Haxe Toolkit plugin v1.2 for IntelliJ IDEA, Android Studio, and other JetBrains’ products is now available. Includes 2019.x support!
• SlavaRa has added tooltip for overloaded operator. The code isn’t in nightly builds of FlashDevelop/HaxeDevelop yet, but will be soon.
• Contributing to the Haxe Manual is easier than ever!
• Ian Harrigan has created a Haxe to Maven transpiler plugin.
• Juraj Kirchheim is looking into putting together a Haxe coding camp on Coconut (a reactive UI framework).
• The source code for the Haxe and OpenFL version of Feathers UI is now available on GitHub (remember that this is pre-alpha code). Also an early build of the Components Explorer example is now online, re-built with Feathers UI for Haxe and OpenFL, compiled to JavaScript.

In case you missed it

• The Official release of Haxe 4.0.0-rc.3 has been announced, including the new JVM target, improved Unicode support and IDE services!
• Vshaxe 2.13.0 and a brand-new extension for the lix package manager are now available in the VSCode marketplace.
• 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.
• 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 Neko’s and HXCPP’s CI to Azure Pipelines. ⏳
• New videos by Lewis Lepton:
  • Shader Tutorial Series - EP021 - Circle of lights.
  • Shader Tutorial Series - EP022 - Morphing grid boxes.
  • Kha Tutorial Series - EP135 - Wall jump raccoon.
  • Kha Tutorial Series - EP136 - Flip sprites raccoon.
  • Channel Update - 24th June 2019.

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.

Upcoming Events & Talks

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

Job Offers & Bounties

• Nevosoft Inc (Saint-Petersburg, Russia) are looking for a Haxe developer to join Charm Farm team.
• 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

• Latest version of RPG Map 2 by Sébastien Bénard is out, adding fog/darkness, water, new fonts, map imports and more.
• New game by Stephen Lavelle - steurungsbefehlverfuegbarkeitskachelmarkierungsverwaltungsgeraet, made with OpenFL.

In case you missed it

• 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!
• 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

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

Previews & Demos

Open Source

• Jeff Ward got an SSL Socket connection working in Haxe and decided that it’s better to submit it to the Cookbook.
• Quaternion for rotation demo (arrows to rotate, cmd and alt for z axis rotate) and its source code by Nanjizal.
• Couple of videos of HaxeUI by Ian Harrigan:
  • Virtual TableView with inertial scrolling and custom item renderers containing 3,000,000+ items! It started jittering only around the 10,000,000 mark.
  • 2.3 million items with a pretty complex set of renderers seems to work out just fine. Checkout its markup code.
• A few GIFs of ShoeBoxNodes by Hendrik Schoenmaker:
  • Ability to run python and other scripts directly as a node
  • Contextual labels and descriptions of nodes and their elements
  • Added color constants and expressions to color inputs

Closed Source

• SUPER Cute Alient team is working hard towards a story prologue. And also have a new Surprise Mechanic video.
• Ingénoire has redesigned Ethan and Yvonne from Hegemone Pass.
• 1speed team is making an adventure game about ghosts… and stuff. Here are quick video and screenshot from it.
• Spot the chameleon in Renaine.
• Joe Williamson is working on a kaizo platformer.
• 3D Character Controller based on Squished Capsule Colliders are coming along really nicely.
• Couple of dev screenshots from ExaStar by Koko:
  • Good to know those trees have a velocity of 0, wouldn’t want them going anywhere.
  • Sooo much debug drawing.
• A bunch of videos and screenshots from “BREAK N TAKE” by Alex Johansson:
  • Revised tutorial thread.
  • Working on the icon design.
  • A little before and after of the main menu.
  • Footage of the shop.
  • Cleaning up the shop.
  • Continuing experimenting with menu designs.
  • Spend humans to upgrade your ship.
• A few screenshots from “Pixel Hero” (previously known as “Barcode Battler”, and the game now has a website) by Ben Simms:
  • One of the shortest battles I’ve had.
  • What would happen in a battle between a ninja and a Tripod from War of the Worlds?.
  • Luck can be a terrible thing.
• A couple of GIF’s from WIP OTO (a minimalist platformer with puzzle mechanics) by Lewis Lepton:
  • A shader in an object.
  • Shaders & interactions with objects.

Some Library Releases

• electron 5.0.6
• callfunc 0.2.0
• hxtsdgen 0.2.0
• haxe-concurrent 2.1.2
• robotlegs 1.2.8
• stablexui 1.2.3
• geometrize-haxe 1.0.3
• nice 2.4.1
• pako 1.0.8
• hxmake 0.2.9
• Checkout the most recent library releases on HaxeLib.

Framework Updates

• [tink_sql] Revive std driver and start sqlite pull request.

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

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

• Add js.lib.Number pull request
• Ensure macro from abstract methods return compatible type pull request
• [hxcpp] Allow binding of previous Cppia class version if type hasnt been compiled pull request.
• Context warnings API pull request.
• Limit octal string escapes to ASCII range merged.
• Add Context.info(msg,pos) pull request.
• Allow enums ctors without args in static inline vars merged.
• Hold error/warning messages while trying to unify call arguments pull request.
• [js] Improve downcasting generation merged.

In case you missed it

• [hxcs] Allow using -D hxcs.DEFINE and add documentation pull request.
• [cs] Enable sys.thread API merged.
• [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.

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

Take it easy everyone and have a good week!