Haxe Roundup № 487

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

• New update on Feathers UI Kickstarter campaign: SWF targets now enabled in the OpenFL version of Feathers UI!
• New ArmorPaint builds are up! Now with curvature baker, 16/32bit painting, .exr export, undo for layer operations, custom keymaps and 256 layers per project!
• Oleg Dolya has published his plans for July. Plus a few screenshots from his Procgen Mansion project.
• Andy Li has written an article about how livestreaming his work helps him to stay focused.
• Andy Li has also worked on and live-streamed setting up Azure Pipelines for Hashlink.
• Coconut.questions - questions & answers about coconut.ui by Mark Knol.
• Flaxe - A Flash/AS2/AS3 conversion helper by Eric Bishton.
• With RBXHaxe 1.0.0 you can write a Roblox game in Haxe now. Checkout the short tutorial.
• Gamedevbynight has made an extern generator for OpenUI5. Checkout the externs themselves and examples repo.

In case you missed it

• A new FeathersUI Kickstarter reward has been added for a $250 pledge.
• Dice Dice Baby is a little Dicey Dungeons update by Terry Cavanagh.
• Jeff Ward has written some details about how to add hxScout / hxTelemetry profiler support into frameworks. Kha support is currently being discussed.
• 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!
• 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 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.

Videos & Music

• Checkout the short video of George Corney’s latest project – an interactive fluid simulation that you control with your body.
• Shader Tutorial Series - EP025 - Noise 1d.
• Shader Tutorial Series - EP026 - Image.
• Add a video related to Haxe.

Upcoming Events & Talks

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

Job Offers & Bounties

• A new job offer involving Haxe in Copenhagen at Laerdal Copenhagen.
• Bounty (up to 250 US$) for finishing the implementation UWP (WINRT) using ANGLE (in Lime).
• 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

• Anders Nissen has released his Stoneset game on iOS.
• The iOS version of Dead Cells has been delayed. The new release date is 28th of August.

In case you missed it

• The Signature Edition of Northgard is available to pre-order now for XBox One, PS4 and Nintendo Switch.
• Trigono has been released, now available on iOS.
• Perfect Fit is a puzzle game (made in Stencyl) about removing triangular segments from hexagons until no parts remain. It’s available on iOS and Android.
• Total Party Kill by Jussi Simpanen is now available on Steam, Android and iOS.
• Latest version of RPG Map 2 by Sébastien Bénard is out, adding fog/darkness, water, new fonts, map imports and more.

Code Examples

• Threading macro like Clojure and pipe operator article.
• Prototype SSL Socket Server article.
• Haxe to Emscripten article.
• Have an example you want to add? Consider contributing to the code.haxe.org cookbook.

Previews & Demos

Open Source

• Matthijs Kamstra continues his work on generative art sketches:
  • Randomizing characters.
  • Random drips & spatter.
• Matthijs Kamstra has also created externs for dat.GUI. Here are also:
  • Source code for the usage example.
  • Testing dat.GUI screenshot.

Closed Source

• Concept for the press start page of the Scales game by Hello Lightbulb.
• Regular shots won’t do it for the big Boxbots in Attraction Force by Ohsat Games.
• New GIF from Dicey Dungeons by Terry Cavanagh - Finally got this little guy in the game. And a new tune for the game by Chipzel.
• Don’t Panic has streamed some work on 2D adventure game which he is making with Haxe/Kha.
• Doom’s E1M1 under the OpenFL API using graphics.lineTo by Kaelan Evans.
• BREAK N TAKE had been submitted for AppStore review.
• Darksburg editor screenshot from Haxe discord server.
• New video and summer theme of Frontier Story by jmw.
• The latest updates of “Pixel Hero” by Ben Simms:
  • You’ll be able to share your created heroes barcode’s for others to copy.
  • Old card style vs new one.

Some Library Releases

• vscode 1.36.0
• RBXHaxe 1.0.0
• starling-spine-hx 0.1.1
• stats.js.hx 0.1.0
• nova 0.3.8
• hlsdl 1.10.0
• hldx 1.10.0
• robotlegs 1.4.1
• fuse 0.0.19
• condition 1.2.9
• location 1.0.7
• Checkout the most recent library releases on HaxeLib.

Framework Updates

• Performance improvement proposals for Geometrize-Haxe discussion.

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

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

• HashLink 1.10 released.
• Int can be re-assigned when returned from extern inline function issue.
• Fix unification of recursive typedefs pull request.
• Date improvements merged.

In case you missed it

• Add Context.info(msg,pos) merged.
• [js] Improve TypedArray merged.
• Add js.lib.Number pull request
• Context warnings API merged.
• Add Context.info(msg,pos) merged.
• [cs] Add using statements via @:csUsing pull request.
• [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.
• [hxcs] Add .NET core netlibs merged.
• [cs] Add support for native cs type parameter constraints 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!