Haxe Roundup 499

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

• Deep Dive: Updated matching algorithms & new controls talks about the new version of Steam Labs Deep Dive which came out on 1st of October. Lars Doucet is looking for any feedback, the best way is to leave a comment on the Labs forums.

Videos & Music

• Add a video related to Haxe.

Upcoming Events & Talks

• There will be a small HaxeUp in Seattle next week on October 4th!
• Add an upcoming event about Haxe.

Job Offers & Bounties

• New job offer from Persona Game Studio (Novosibirsk, Russia) who are looking for a Haxe game developer.
• Shiro Games is recruiting for different roles to expand their studio and work on upcoming, exciting projects!
• 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).
• Lars Doucet’s list of various open bounties.
• Add an available job involving Haxe.

Product Releases

• Ben Morris has published Kitty Catalyst, which is a incremental game where you raise and breed cats and made with HaxePunk.
• Little Square Things is a free sokoban-like puzzle game by Gregory S. Reed, made with HaxeFlixel and is out now on Steam and itch.io. Gregory is also working on future updates for the game, like the ability to undo moves, expansion packs, a mobile release, and a level editor.
• Dead Cells is now available on Apple TV! And it is coming to Android as well, but it will take some time!

Code Examples

• Have an example you want to add? Consider contributing to the code.haxe.org cookbook.

Previews & Demos

Open Source

• Tong has updated Haxe type definitions for Three.js to r109.
• Ogmo-3-lib is Haxe parser for Project and Level files generated by the Ogmo Editor 3.

Closed Source

• Syo has returned to work on Jitter Sandbox, so check out the latest screenshot.
• Adding the background makes such a big difference in “Scales: a Pangolin Story” game by Hello Lightbulb.
• Pop up tutorials in SUPER Cute Alien.
• An editor for Armory3d made with HaxeUI?
• Spiders wear all kinds of “boots” in ArachnoPunk by Benny Heller.
• Couple of new screenshots from Phantom Path by Kirill Poletaev.
• Here’s some footage of Alex Johansson’s WW1 strategy game based around MORSE Code.
• Couple of quick videos from WIP 3D platformer by Danny Yaroslavski:
  • The UX is starting to converge on the old iPod click wheel design.
  • Added in some NPC logic.
• Couple of GIFs from Haxe discord server:
  • Meanwhile, back in the elemental cave… by ElementalCode made with OpenFL.
  • Some WIP environment mechanics by arnulfo made with HaxeFlixel.

Some Library Releases

• three.js git
• electron 6.0.11
• react-media 0.1.0
• react-router-4 0.2.8
• updrotean 0.1.3
• transition 1.0.5
• json2object 3.6.4
• openflFilesystem 1.0.4
• heapsTiled 0.0.12
• heapsOgmo 0.0.1
• pony 1.0.0
• ogmo-3 0.1.0
• bind 0.4.3
• openfl-spine 1.5.3
• condition 2.0.6
• hxfsm 2.0.0
• p2p 0.1.0
• Checkout the most recent library releases on HaxeLib.

Framework Updates

• [hxgenjs] ES6 super call ordering fixed.

People & Projects to support

• Kevin Leung is creating open source software libraries.
• 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

• Carry comments through to target language proposal.
• Replace null access modifier with this proposal.
• Add support for on site getters & setters proposal.
• Add support for Self access for abstracts proposal.
• [RFC] Xml Dsl’s discussion.
• 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

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

• @:inheritDoc(pack.MyType.field) pull request.
• Inlined cost calculation for loop unrolling issue.

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

Take it easy everyone and have a good week!