Haxe Roundup 510

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 4.0.5 has been released!
• Stencyl 4.0.2 has been released!
• Ratalaika Games are planning to make Stencyl work on consoles in 2020.
• Haxe + GitHub Workflows / Actions article by Ian Harrigan.
• Devlog 7: Community Beta by fedellen.
• Baking update for ArmorPaintDXR is up: raytraced AO, cavity, bent normals, thickness, lightmap, curvature, dilate pass, reduced gpu mem usage.
• Feathers UI Devlog: Preparing for the first alpha build, expanded documentation, and new sample projects.
• Last Haxe news of the year… The Haxe Summit venue has been booked, see you in Linz am Rhein!

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

• Cagette.net are looking for a Haxe developer to join them!
• Poptropica are in need of a developer to Integrate GAF into OpenFL.
• Shiro Games is recruiting for different roles to expand their studio and work on upcoming, exciting projects!
• Tamar Curry has opened $50 bug bounty for improving TextField performance in OpenFL. Here is also related issue in the OpenFL repo.
• Bounty (up to 250 US$) 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

• The Tabletop RPG Map Editor 2 has added a long requested “hexagon grid” feature in Update 14, by Sébastien Bénard.
• Laguna has released the “Unexpected combo” puzzle for #1hgj.
• Jurien Meerlo has released their game Snake The Dots for iOS.
• Intergalactic PSHRS is a game made in less than 48 Hours for the Yogscast Jingle Jam Game Jam 2019 by Axol Studio.

Code Examples

• Display Haxe traces within a <div> snippet by Nanjizal.
• Have an example you want to add? Consider contributing to the code.haxe.org cookbook.

Previews & Demos

Open Source

• Haxe Checkstyle 2.6.1 has been released.
• Hxelectron type definitions have been updated to version 7.1.6.
• Ian Harrigan has created a new property grid component making its way into all HaxeUI backends!
• Looks like Matt Tuttle is working on a HashLink SDL backend for HaxePunk.
• Molekul pattern converted from Canvas to SVG rendering by Matthijs Kamstra.
• Ian Harrigan previews an accordion component in HaxeUI which has been overhauled, fixing various issues.

Closed Source

• Hello Lightbulb have added some moving platforms to their newer levels in “Scales, A Pangolin Story”.
• Fedellen demos a little playtesting on iPad of Sonar Smash, and some footage from a pretty deep run.
• Jefvel previews a walking shooting man in Heaps.
• Jeff Ward #AdventOfCode AI player hits the last brick.
• Some footage of the Knight galloping around the King.

Some Library Releases

• astar 0.1.3
• checkstyle 2.6.1
• ogmo-3 1.0.0
• fuse 0.0.49
• glory 2.0.3
• vscode 1.41.0
• encoding-sjis 1.0.0
• haxeui-core 1.0.14
• echo 1.3.1
• haxeui-html5 1.0.2
• Checkout the most recent library releases on HaxeLib.

Framework Updates

• Nothing new 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

• Add Abstract classes proposal.
• Add ReadOnlyArray optimisation 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.

• Better JavaScript debugging experience discussion.

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!