Haxe Roundup 505

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 4.0.2 has been released!
• [HXCPP/Linux] Tip: Replace ld linker with lld to improve compilation times.
• Ian Harriagan has updating the “HaxeLib helper” to a full blown HaxeLib manager.
• Writing a platformer game using HaxeFlixel Devlog Part 06: Level Transition & Parallax Background by Mayur Patil.
• New post from Hello Lightbulb: Husband and Wife Dev Team. And their game “Scales: A Pangolin Story” now has a demo.
• MrTambourineSLO has finished implementing ledge grabbing in his platformer game and they’ve written a recap about it.
• Check out Sonar Smash Devlog 02: “Hard Code the Things” article by fedellen.
• The AS3 target been removed. Good night sweet prince.
• Continued Twitter MEGA-thread about Chess themed SHMUP prototype by Alex Johansson with new videos and mockups included.

Videos & Music

• Add a video related to Haxe.

Upcoming Events & Talks

• François Barbut will talk about Haxe 4 & PHP at Capitole du Libre in Toulouse, France on Sunday 17 November at 3PM : “Haxe 4, un Typescript pour PHP ?”.
• 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

• Sonar Smash has launched their games website.

Code Examples

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

Previews & Demos

Open Source

• #Inktober is over, but not the creativity: new generative art videos by Jérémy Faivre.
• Pavel Alexandrov is working on TTF rasterizer tool for Heaps.
• Gauthier Billot has failed at making a playable FPS for the #procjam but they’ve released it anyway with source code available.
• 1PDG 1.0.2 and plans for the rest of November by Oleg Dolya. Check out some of the latest images:
  • Hope to turn this into a flooded dungeon.
  • This is how the water is going to look more or less.
• New creative coding experiments with Haxe and three.js by Matthijs Kamstra:
  • “All things are difficult before they are easy.” ~Thomas Fuller
  • Little purple worm?
  • sketch.Blob
  • sketch.Blob PART 2
  • sketch.Logo: How would my logo look like in 3D?
  • Logo animated in 3D by code

Closed Source

• Meet Fito from SUPER Cute Alien.
• Michael Bickel is using launchpad pro as a midi-controller. Made with Haxe Grig.
• A new screenshot from “Croaking Hill” game by 1speed studio.
• A few quick videos by Danny Yaroslavski showing his WebVR projects made with Haxe and three.js:
  • So much fun playing with 3D UIs.
  • Connect-the-dots in VR anyone?
  • 3D Platformer in VR?
  • Testing some color palettes for connect-the-dots VR.
• New GIFs from [WIP] arena web multiplayer game by Caribou:
  • Working on collisions & client-side throttling.
  • Particles!
  • Basic layering for the map.
  • Overly dramatic hit visual feedback.
• From OpenFL’s discord: CreativeMagic will release a new game called “U-Ge” soon. Here are few screenshots of it:
  • Main menu preview
  • Game screen 1
  • And Game screen 2
• A couple of new GIFs from Jitter Sandbox by Syo:
  • New collision system.
  • Debug mode: vectors of velocity for each point.
• A few quick videos from [WIP] Ben Simms’ game which he is making with Stencyl:
  • Playing with some core mechanics.
  • Some new assets and some new mechanics.
  • Blades and smoke!
• New quick videos from [WIP] Sonar smash by fedellen:
  • Selection screens for the daily chest rewards.
  • Auto saving systems and a bunch of little tweaks.
  • Early Reveal Trailer. The game is coming to iOS, Android, PC, and Mac in early 2020.

Some Library Releases

• haxe-fmod git
• deepnightLibs 0.0.23
• condition 2.0.10
• test-adapter 1.2.6
• pony 1.0.6
• utils 1.0.6
• fuse 0.0.41
• polygonal-ds 2.1.1
• haxeui-kha 1.0.2
• haxeui-hxwidgets 1.0.4
• haxeui-core 1.0.5
• extension-ga 3.0.0
• vscode 1.40.0
• Checkout the most recent library releases on HaxeLib.

Framework Updates

• [peg] Update for WordPress code merged.

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

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

• Tail recursion elimination merged.
• Implement texpr based display support merged.
• [analyzer] Over optimisation of not-really constant locals fixed.
• [parser] Eval empty flag value as true merged.

You can get started using the latest features by downloading a nightly build of Haxe and see the impact the latest changes have on each target by browsing the benchmarks site.

Take it easy everyone and have a good week!