Haxe Roundup 513

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

• Vshaxe 2.18.0 has been released!
• Devlog #11: More Checkboxes for SonarSmash’s submission to Apple.
• Ratalaika Games are working on console ports of Stencyl game engine. With more news coming soon!
• GamesFromScratch has written and recorded some details & opinions about the future of the open source Blender powered Armory3D game engine.

Videos & Music

• A little trailer of the Scales: a Pangolin Story by Hello Lightbulb.
• Add a video related to Haxe.

Upcoming Events & Talks

• HaxeUp Hamburg hosted at InnoGames will take place on 7th February 2020. Make sure to sign up!
• EU Haxe Summit 2020 - Let’s meet in Linz.
• Add an upcoming event about Haxe.

Job Offers & Bounties

• NX Studio (Moscow, Russia) are looking for a Haxe programmer to work on their game called “Throne Rush”.
• Shiro Games are recruiting for different roles to expand their studio and work on upcoming, exciting projects!
• Lars Doucet’s list of various open bounties.
• Add an available job involving Haxe.

Product Releases & Announcements

• OverWired - a cyberpunk side-scroller game made with HaxeFlixel is available on Itch.io and Newgrounds.
• Zany Faces (made with Haxe and OpenFL) by Osaka Red LLC is available on iOS and Android, available on the Amazon Appstore and Google Play.

Code Examples

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

Previews & Demos

Open Source

• Font rendering demo made with peote-view-remaster git by Sylvio Sell.
• OpArtCircles01 is a new coding challenge made with Kha by Juan Rinaudo. Source code is available on GitHub.
• Creative Coding audio visualizations by Matthijs Kamstra:
  • Reverse circle eq.
  • Blobs eq.

Closed Source

• Heroes 3 map viewer by Kerio.
• Checking a few boxes for the desktop version of Sonar Smash.
• How would you call an extended boolean type? by Tamar Curry.
• Cory Martin has been trying to fix one bug, and accidentally turned Leaping lad into the god of long jumping
• Procedurally generated trees by Oleg Dolya:
  • Got pretty realistic ones.
  • A different sort of trees.
• Couple quick videos from WIP puzzle platformer by Robert Alvarez:
  • Collecting keys to unlock matching doors.
  • These arrows can either help or hinder you.

Some Library Releases

• p2p 0.1.27
• haxeui-core 1.0.18
• fuse 0.0.54
• recharts-examples 0.1.0
• recharts 0.1.0
• undraw-react 1.6.0
• undraw 1.6.0
• bind 0.4.4
• xa3.csv 0.1.0
• notifier 1.1.16
• condition 2.0.12
• typepacker 1.1.0
• language-server-protocol 3.15.0
• hxmemcache 1.2.0
• lex 0.9.2
• jsoni18n 1.0.1
• pony 1.0.9
• 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

• 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

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

• Nothing this week.

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!