Haxe Roundup № 489

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

• Woot Tutor is an online tutoring platform that Jeff Ward is working on. The real-time shared workspace is built in Haxe!
• Feathers UI for Haxe and OpenFL is fully funded on Kickstarter!!
• Feathers UI Community: A new community forum for developers using Feathers UI for Haxe and OpenFL. There is also a new Discord server for Feathers UI.
• What is Haxe and should I care about it? written by Richard Oliver Bray.
• Thomas Uster with help from Hugh Sanderson has added Android x86_64 processor support to HXCPP & NME along with support for the latest NDK! Checkout the merged PRs for HXCPP and NME.
• Malte Köhrer is now an one of maintainers for the official Pixi-Haxe repository.

In case you missed it

• War Stories: Designing Dead Cells was a marriage of man and machine - an interview with Dead Cells lead designer Sébastien Bénard.
• A new role based access control library for Haxe has been released!
• Write your first ‘Hello World’ Game Screen in 5 seconds with HaxeFlixel by Priyansh Sangule.
• Procgen Mansion by Oleg Dolya has been updated: size selection, floor plans export and lots of small visual improvements.
• Defender’s Quest 2 Progress: February - July 2019 by Lars Doucet.
• 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!
• Flaxe - A Flash/AS2/AS3 conversion helper by Eric Bishton.

Videos & Music

• Shader Tutorial Series - EP029 - Image Color Mix.
• Shader Tutorial Series - EP030 - White Noise.
• Watch the updated trailer for SUPER Cute Alien.
• Watch the trailer for Attraction Force by Ohsat games.
• New short video from the WIP 2D adventure game by 1speed studio.
• Add a video related to Haxe.

Upcoming Events & Talks

• You could play SciAnts Evolved at First Friday at the St Louis Science Center on August 2nd.
• 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).
• Room 8 Studio (Kiev, Ukraine) are looking for a C#/Haxe developer.
• Lars Doucet’s list of various open bounties.
• Add an available job involving Haxe.

Product Releases

• OVERWHELM by Ruari O’Sullivan is now one year old. And it got an ANNIVERSARY UPDATE, bringing local co-op to PC and Mac!

In case you missed it

• Tankzors Lux (made with Kha) by RblSb has been released onto Android.
• Attraction Force by Ohsat Games will be released on July 26th 2019.
• BREAK N TAKE by Alex Johansson is available for preorder on iOS. The game will be released on 28th of August 2019. Alex has also prepared a press kit for the game.

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

• Pecan is a coroutines and ECA (event condition action) library by Aurel Bily.
• Faxe fork by David “Blackmagic” Elahee is a a more complete FMOD wrapper.
• Medieval Fantasy City Generator 0.7.1 by Oleg Dolya in the latest update adds the ability to edit district names, “reroll” district names, new “type” of district - riverbank, and other small changes.

Closed Source

• I don’t see a single thing wrong with this from Leaping Lads by Cory Martin.
• Gummywormz is working on another small Haxe game.
• Nerd world problems by Joe Williamson. And Designing an Evil Platformer stream, with other recordings also available.
• A new nice GIF from Frontier Story by jmw.
• Sheeps in Phantom Path by Kirill Poletaev.
• Got the bugs moving! and play with fire and you’re gonna… previews by Hello Lightbulb.

Some Library Releases

• pecan git
• faxe fork git
• hxWebSockets 1.2.0
• hxtf 1.1.0
• electron 5.0.8
• h2dTiled 0.0.6
• echo 0.5.2
• location 1.0.8
• lex 0.9.0
• css-types 0.2.1
• haxework 1.0.0
• magic 0.0.7
• RBXHaxe 2.0.1
• modular 0.11.2
• hxWidgets 1.0.5
• fuse 0.0.28
• bitmap 0.1.6
• Checkout the most recent library releases on HaxeLib.

Framework Updates

• [hss] Add sourcemap support to HSS merged.

In case you missed it

• Performance improvement proposals for Geometrize-Haxe discussion.

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

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

In case you missed it

• Fix implicit return of arrow functions for :Void merged.
• HashLink 1.10 released.
• Date improvements merged.
• Add Context.info(msg,pos) merged.
• Add js.lib.Number pull request
• Context warnings API 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!