Haxe Roundup 512

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

• Lubos Lenco outlines the plans for Armory 2020. 🛠
• ArmorPaint 0.7 is out with new features, tons of fixes and updated manual. Video tutorials section coming!
• A step by step guide on how to build ArmorPaint by Game From Scratch.
• A discussion has been started about improving Heaps accessibility for the wider community.
• Devlog #10: Pursuing Version 1.0 by fedellen.
• Are there any reasons why Haxe is implemented in OCaml and not in Haskell, are there any benefits? question asked over on Reddit.

Videos & Music

• New Armory3D navmesh video tutorial - Recreating PacMan by Samuel Moxham.
• fedellen shares some juicy video clips for Sonar Smash’s upcoming trailer.
• 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.
• 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

• Push blocks to build bridges in BRDG, a browser puzzle game by Robert Alvarez made in Stencyl.

Code Examples

• Rest type parameters + @:genericBuild == variadic Type Parameters code snippet.
• Have an example you want to add? Consider contributing to the code.haxe.org cookbook.

Previews & Demos

Open Source

• Skerper has made HxVibe, a tiny extern for vibrating Xbox 360 controllers via xinput on the C++ target.
• Creative Coding audio visualisations by Matthijs Kamstra:
  • Found a new way of exporting sketches to video.
  • Based upon an older sketch.

Closed Source

• Battle scene improvements in ExaStar by koko.
• Techy Wrinkles got the pathfinder working in OpenFl + Spritekit. It seems portable enough and has nice performance for mobile.
• Reuniting a baby pangolin with it’s mother in Scales: a Pangolin Story by Hello Lightbulb.
• Alex Johansson shares some footage of the Rook getting boxed in by the Archbishop and their congregation in his chess game made with Stencyl.
• A couple of new GIFs from Heck Deck by torcado:
  • A preview of the next enemy.
  • A friendly crystal ball that just wants to give you all the cards.
• Robert Alvarez is working on a new puzzle platformer with a size changing mechanic. Here is two GIFs from it:
  • Added spikes and also boxes that can be used to cross over them.
  • A very bouncy level.
• A few quick videos from the game that jefvel is making with Heaps.io:
  • NPCs can talk, kinda. But you can only reply with gunshots at the moment.
  • Very cool inventory system.
  • It’s now possible to harass citizens and pickup items from the ground.

Some Library Releases

• apirock 0.1.3-beta
• DomWires 1.0.0-alpha.8
• deepnightLibs 0.0.29
• flump-starling 1.0.4
• StoryblokClient 0.3.0
• undraw-react 1.5.0
• undraw 1.5.0
• tink_core 1.25.0
• notifier 1.1.15
• Checkout the most recent library releases on HaxeLib.

Framework Updates

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

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

• [hashlink] New GC 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!