Haxe Roundup № 492

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

• A small Twitter poll by Pete Shand on "What version of Haxe are you currently using"? Hurry up, the time is almost ran out!
• AMA with the devs of Dead Cells on Reddit.
• Thanks to Richard Oliver Bray, Haxe is now on the list of supported languages on the VSCode homepage.
• A series of blog posts by Terry Cavanagh about Dicey Dungeons:
  • How Big Is This Game Anyway?
  • Who Are All These Enemies You’re Fighting Anyway?
  • What Inspired Dicey Dungeons?
  • What’s It Like Working With A Team?
  • Have You Ever Made A Game Like This Before?
• A blog post by Holly Gramazio about writing for Dicey Dungeons.

Videos & Music

• New video by Lubos Lenco: Texturing in ArmorPaint 0.6
• New tunes from Dicey Dungeons by Chipzel:
  • Today is better than yesterday.
  • I’ll still be writing this soundtrack when I’m 65.
  • Cheeky.
  • Buy our game so I don’t have to work anymore.
  • I did it.
• 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

• You can buy the Dicey Dungeons Original Soundtrack!
• ccj2019 is a Climate Change Jam 2019 entry by Aurel Bily.
• Dicey Dungeons is available on Steam and itch.io! And it’s doing pretty well.
• “Who’s the Boss?” is the 14th update for Dead Cells since early access back in 2017. It will be available on PS4, XboxOne and Nintendo Switch soon!

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

• Rouge pull request has been merged and will be released as 3.9.0 on August 20th, meaning Haxe syntax highlighting on GitLab will become possible!
• Giffon.io is Haxe 4 ready now!
• Post-Processing Module v0.3 for Armory3D by Alexander Kleemann. Checkout the video and web-demo.
• 'Damilare Darmie Akinlaja is building a virtual machine for WebAssembly in Haxe. The long term goal of this project is to be able to load full Haxe code at runtime from any Haxe target.

Closed Source

• Birds! in Phantom Path by Kirill Poletaev.
• Interactive credits by Geokureli.
• New GIF from WIP 2D adventure game by 1speed studio showing new assets and combat.
• Andrej has updated Attraction Force with improvements for powerup spawning.
• Adding collaboration capabilities to web-based editor framework by Michael Bickel.
• A few short videos from 3D platformer by Danny Yaroslavski:
  • Chugging along.
  • First time playing with springy logic.
  • Took a stab at some shaders!.
  • Some more foolin’ with springs to make a rope bridge.
• A few pictures from the next project by Alex Johansson:
  • Cheeky mock-up.
  • Can’t wait to get these mockups of land, air and sea moving in game!
  • Here’s the game view on device switching between battlefields!
• A couple of quick videos from Corporate Salmon by Alex Johansson:
  • Fresh batch of suits added, going to get them in gameplay tomorrow!
  • New shops are (just about) fully integrated.

Some Library Releases

• tink_parse 0.3.1
• tink_core 1.24.0
• slide 0.0.1
• StoryblokClient 0.0.3
• HaxeContracts 0.14.3
• deepstate 0.13.4
• electron 6.0.2
• thenshim 0.2.0
• h2dTiled 0.0.9
• nova 0.3.10
• jQueryExtern 3.2.0
• swiftsuspenders 1.0.9
• vscode 1.37.0
• 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

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

• --native-lib and the compilation server discussion.
• Native lib rework part 1 merged.
• [eval] Check statics reset on field access pull request.
• @:noClosure meta to prevent usage of methods as values merged.
• Completion item filtering 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!