Haxe Roundup № 490

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

• Two weeks till launch of Dicey Dungeons! A quick update about game’s localisations.
• Feathers UI now has its own blog!
• Emacs editor support for Haxe is now available - with code completion and other IDE-like features.
• A Brief Haxe Tutorial by John Gabriele.

Videos & Music

• Checkout the video tutorial on how to develop a web router with Haxe, targeting PHP.
• This week Andy Li has worked on a web interface for the Haxe Foundation nightly builds S3 storage build.haxe.org. Checkout the temporary link to the stream recording.
• Shader Tutorial Series - EP031 - Mouse.
• Shader Tutorial Series - EP032 - Scan Image.
• New music theme for Frontier story by jmw.
• Improvised music with a digital installation playing its own part by Jérémy Fa.
• 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, tomorrow.
• 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

• Cursed Treasure: Don’t Touch My Gems has finished being ported to HTML5 by using Haxe & OpenFL.
• Release the Kraken! The Clan of the Kraken is ready to join the battle of Northgard. Here is the clan’s introduction.
• Attraction Force by Ohsat Games is out! Get it while it’s hot!.
• Oleg Antipov is working on a mobile arcade shooter mixed with a match-three genre. Powered by Haxe and Kha. Beta version.

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

• The Haxe ParcelJS plugin by Jeremy.
• Ian Harrigan preview GIFS of HaxeUI native, responsive layouts for Windows, OSX and Kubuntu
• Making a Haxe & OpenFL powered Raspberry photo frame using the Hyperpixel 4 Square.
• Variable jumping in OTO by Lewis Lepton.
• Updated trilateralTextureTest by Nanjizal. Checkout the GitHub repo for source code.
• Two new Kha related repos by RblSb, KhaIap is a Google Play billing wrapper and KhaRec which provides a simple way to write graphics2 commands to file and play it.

Closed Source

• Alex Johansson has gotten all the achievement icons finished for BREAK N TAKE.
• Lars Doucet is having fun with Defender’s Quest 2 skill trees.
• Checkout the short video of mobile 3D platformer made with Haxe & Unity by Danny Yaroslavski.
• Building interiors in Renaine. Go into people’s houses uninvited and force them to talk to you, yay!
• WIP procedurally generated tank doodles by Oleg Dolya.
• Dead World Heroes switches from Haxe to Unity.

Some Library Releases

• nosey 0.0.2
• buw 0.8.5
• electron 6.0.0
• hxWidgets 1.0.7
• Checkout the most recent library releases on HaxeLib.

Framework Updates

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

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

• Allow modification of loop var in IntIterator loop pull request.

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

Take it easy everyone and have a good week!