Haxe Roundup № 491

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

• ammer - unified native extensions generator for Haxe.
• Total Party Kill by Jussi Simpanen has been downloaded over half a million times with 417k downloads on iOS and 154k on Android. It has been selected as Indie Game of the Month on Google Play!
• Hello! From: HaxePunk and me an article about future of HaxePunk.
• Dicey Dungeons: What’s changed since the last alpha?
• Is it suitable to use Haxe as a parsing library in JavaScript, Typescript, C# and CPP?
• Checkout and play Tank Doodles by Oleg Dolya at itch.io. Oleg has written up a quick overview about the generator over on Patreon.

Videos & Music

• New video by Lewis Lepton: Shader Tutorial Series - EP033 - Noise Image.
• SciAnts Evolved Gameplay Trailer [BETA].
• Andy Li has worked on 64-bit Windows haxelib builds. Here is temporary link for stream recording.
• Video tutorial by Luke Selman: Build a Website from Scratch with Haxe Day #12 - Starting on Dynamic News Loading.
• New tunes for Dicey Dungeons by Chipzel:
  • Last nights work = happy feet.
  • Flails arms around wildly.
  • boop boop boop de boop boop de boop de boop boop.
• Add a video related to Haxe.

Upcoming Events & Talks

• Add an upcoming event about Haxe.

Job Offers & Bounties

• Mino Games (Montreal, Canada) is hiring Haxe developers to join their small group of passionate engineers and artists.
• Tamar Curry has opened $50 bug bounty for improving TextField performance in OpenFL. Here is also related issue in the OpenFL repo.
• A new job offer involving Haxe in Copenhagen at Laerdal Copenhagen.
• Bounty (up to 250 US$) 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

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

• HaxeShare is a Haxe web framework by Persevere and Motivate that provides page generation, routing, form building, and client and server code generation.

Closed Source

• Weekend side project by Josh Tynjala: karaoke MP3+G player in Haxe and OpenFL.
• SciAnts Evolved demo has been presented at First Friday.
• A 6x6 grid of every major bug and rough edge left in Dicey Dungeons.
• Upcoming Armorpaint ray-tracing update now in testing phase.
• Sister Abigail from Darksburg has changed a lot during development!
• Black hole + flailing civilians = particle magic in BREAK N TAKE by Alex Johansson.
• Random world interactions in SUPER Cute Alien.
• Multiple hitboxes in HaxeFlixel by Hello Lightbulb.
• Oneshot is a game made with HaxeFlixel for the GMTK Game Jam 2019 in 48 hours by cocosar07.
• New screenshots from the WIP racing game by Ed Ryzhov:
  • Road forks.
  • Extruded grass and fencing.

Some Library Releases

• console.hx 0.2.5
• hxWidgets 1.0.8
• electron 6.0.1
• mini-mighty-engine 1.4.0-alpha
• mme-tools-library 1.2.1
• air4haxe 1.0.0
• nova 0.3.9
• mithril 2.0.0
• extype 2.0.0-rc.4
• haxe-concurrent 2.1.3
• notifier 1.0.7
• thenshim 0.1.0
• nosey 0.1.0
• 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

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

• Handle recursive abstracts on typing a forwarded field 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!