Haxe Roundup 503

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

Haxe 4.0.0

• Haxe 4.0.0 has been released!
• Programmiersprache: Haxe 4.0.0 enthält neuen, schnelleren interpreter.
• Haxe 4.0.0 Released overview by Game From Scratch.

HaxeUp 2019 Linz

• HaxeUp 2019 Linz recordings available on YouTube.
• Slides for the most of HaxeUp 2019 Linz talks:
  • Haxe Compile Plugins by Aleksandr Kuzmenko and the sources for Tail Call Optimization plugin.
  • Migration of Empires by Dan Korostelev.
  • Kha vs HTML5 by Robert Konrad.
  • Internship at Haxe by Aurel Bily.
  • Weaving a better Web with Haxe by Juraj Kirchheim.
• Some photos from HaxeUp 2019 Linz by Josefiene Pertosa:
  • Testing the streamy things.
  • We’re on!
  • Compiler Plugins make for rapt attention…
  • The morning after… Until next time

Community News

• EU Haxe Summit 2020 announcement - Let’s meet in Linz!
• World Collector by Joe Williamson has received 1st place for LD45, made with Haxe & HaxeFlixel!
• Renju returns, a blog post about how games are written in blood.
• A BIG twitter thread by Alex Johansson about his new SHMUP prototype.
• Feathers UI Devlog: Collections, pure JS bundle, touch vs. mouse scrolling, and CI enhancements.
• Blog post: Why I’m using my own 3D game engine by Kirill Poletaev.
• Writing a platformer game using HaxeFlixel devlog #5.
• How to use Haxe to deliver a framework/solution in many target languages?

Videos & Music

• Add a video related to Haxe.

Upcoming Events & Talks

• EU Haxe Summit 2020 - Let’s meet in Linz.
• The next HaxeUp probably will be around next February at InnoGames office!
• Add an upcoming event about Haxe.

Job Offers & Bounties

• Poptropica are in need of a developer to Integrate GAF into OpenFL.
• 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 & Announcements

• Cursed Treasure 2 has been ported to HTML5 and is now live on Kongregate!
• Just Slide made with Stencyl is available on Kongregate!
• New monstrous puzzle game Monster Match out now on itch.io made with Haxe & HaxeFlixel.
• Nowt made in Stencyl is 50% off on itch.io.
• Halloween Special event in Dicey Dungeons.

Code Examples

• GADTs By Use Cases, a ScalaIO 2019 Workshop.
• CBS’s tutorial for Armory3d UI part-1 of 2 goal video by Urjasvi Suthar. And here you can read the current state of this tutorial. [WIP]
• Have an example you want to add? Consider contributing to the code.haxe.org cookbook.

Previews & Demos

Open Source

• #Inkober2019 #19 Sling
• Work on the new revamped graphical builder for HaxeUI is going well, which will also plug into the “IDE” soon, but coming to haxeui.org playground first.
• Rigid body simulation browser demo by Javid Jafari.

Closed Source

• Woot Math’s team mode is made in Haxe.
• Michael Bickel is using Haxe to program and control a drone!
• You know what would be a crazy thing to do 2 1/2 years into dev? Increasing the resolution of your game of course! And… That’s what Octosoft team did in Renaine!
• Caribou is working on an arena web multiplayer game. But not sure how it will evolve…
• A new quick video from “Phantom Path”: Turn yourself into flames to pass through obstacles.
• The floor is made of lava in “Scales: A Pangolin Story” by Hello Lightbulb.
• SUPER Cute Alien has been featured at “Tucumán Hace Videojuegos” at Ingenio Cultural, Argentina.
• Playing with WebVR dev on Oculus Quest using Haxe & ThreeJS.
• On my way to implementing a ledge grab functionality with debug sprites, made with HaxeFlixel.
• Working on colliding polygon shapes video by Austin East.
• All you can do in ArachnoPunk is jump by Benny Heller.
• Couple of updates for RPG map editor by Sébastien Bénard:
  • Large 0.11 update is out!
  • Text bubbles!
• Check out the latest updates on SonarSmash by Derek Sonnenberg:
  • Putting together a quick prototype of the character screen.
  • Trying something out for the bubble shield sonar power.
  • Lots of small tweaks, but mainly its been menu building time.
• A preview of torcado’s UI side project.
• A couple of new GIFs from Heck Deck by torcado:
  • Tweaked the animation a little.
  • Modified the movement AI for the bat a bit.
  • And here’s the secret skill of the bat.
• A few quick videos of Triadic puzzle game made with Stencyl by Robert Alvarez:
  • Added an undo feature.
  • A walkthrough of the last and hardest level. Spoiler
• Some new updates about Little Square Things by Gregory Reed:
  • Canary: now aka “the RC for whatever we’re calling the end of October update”.
  • UPDATE: It’s here – the whatever the name of the October update is!
  • A very much pre-alpha Android release is on itch.io.

Some Library Releases

• haxeui-core 1.0.3
• reve 0.1.0
• event-types 0.8.0
• notifier 1.1.7
• Nice 3.3.0
• fuse 0.0.37
• p2p 0.1.21
• spine-hx 3.8.0
• quadtree 0.2.1
• haxeui-hxwidgets 1.0.2
• TiledTypedefs 1.0.0
• hxWebSockets 1.3.2
• webgl2 1.2.0
• openfl-spine 1.5.5
• condition 2.0.9
• wow 0.0.1
• hxWidgets 1.1.1
• DomWires 1.0.0-alpha.5
• Checkout the most recent library releases on HaxeLib.

Framework Updates

• Nothing this week.

People & Projects to support

• Andy Li is working around the Haxe ecosystem: CI, packaging, docs and learning materials.
• 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

• Hint-conditional for compilation improvements proposal.
• Carry comments through to target language 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

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

• Target tier list.
• Method contracts discussion.
• [wip] Tail recursion elimination pull request.
• [js] Lets see if Object.create(null) makes sense for StringMap nowadays pull request.
• [analyzer] Compiler crash on while and continue fixed.
• Replace null access modifier with this proposal has been rejected.

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

Take it easy everyone and have a good week!