Haxe Roundup 514

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

• Devlog #12: Moving forward with SonarSmash’s Apple submission & more by fedellen.
• OpenFL 8.9.6 and Lime 7.7.0 release announcements.
• Check out the Dead Cells: The Bad Seed Gameplay Trailer by Motion Twin, which will be released on February 11th 2020!

Videos & Music

• Learn ArmorPaint by watching short clips by Lubos Lenco.
• Samus tribute video by Germán Caíno. Made with Haxe, HaxeFlixel and Tiled map editor.
• HaxeFlixel and console development video by Richard Oliver Bray from Hello Lightbulb.
• The Clan of the Ox have finally stepped on the shore of the Northgard by Shiro Games!
• Add a video related to Haxe.

Upcoming Events & Talks

• Osaka Red LLC are co-hosting a HaxeUp with CrashSpace taking place on April 6th in California.
• 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

• Availability for work: Andreas Drewke is available for small to medium sized Flash/OpenFL projects!
• 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

• New ArmorPaint 0.8 dev builds: working on asset browser with material previews, layer grouping, script console, faster ray-tracing, painting transparent surfaces.
• Wish I Could Dive made by Havana24 for WeeklyGameJam #132.
• Too Close by Ludoko Studios is available on the App store, with an Android version planned, made with HaxeFlixel.
• Just Slide 2 by Aditya Chaudhary is out on Kongregate!
• RITZ by ninja_muffin is out on NewGrounds. The source code is available at GitHub.

Code Examples

• '$value' (or "" + value) is usually faster than Std.string(value) for numeric types. See dev comments.
• Have an example you want to add? Consider contributing to the code.haxe.org cookbook.

Previews & Demos

Open Source

• tink_web4hl git POC for the tink webstack on HL with Libuv.
• hxtwig git Haxe externs for the Twig template engine.
• react-native-qrcode-svg by Kevin Leung.
• coc-haxe is a Haxe language server extension for coc.nvim.
• Matthijs Kamstra is making Creative Coding Calendar out of his previous creative coding experiments.
• Juriën Meerlo did some quadtree collision detection learning over the weekend and has released a demo using Kha to visualise everything.

Closed Source

• Castle Pals, a game by Brad Erkkila & made with Stencyl, is running on Nintendo Switch thanks to Ratalaika Games!
• Level selection screen from the HTML5 game by Joaquin Bello which he is making with Kha.
• Marching cubes in Haxe and Kha by Urjasvi Suthar.
• jefvel has modified the forward renderer to be able to use decals.
• Clay Shot by Ben Simms - Its the LCD game you never played in your childhood! A little more performance tuning before its ready for submitting to KaiOS app store.
• Rogue Mage - a Stencyl game by Ben Simms - is finished and submitted to KaiOS app store. Check out a couple of photos showing game running on the phone:
  • The build menu is done!
  • The main menu.

Some Library Releases

• Wasp 0.8.0
• knockout.hx 3.3.1
• fuse 0.0.55
• hxArduino 1.2.2
• openfl 8.9.6
• lime 7.7.0
• flump-starling 1.0.7
• undraw-react 1.7.0
• undraw 1.7.0
• react-next 1.120.0
• material-ui 4.1.0
• react-types 0.12.0
• recharts 0.1.1
• trandom 1.0.0
• geom 0.0.2-alpha
• colyseus 0.12.0
• colyseus-websocket 1.0.6
• 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

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

• Low level asynchronous IO API pull request.

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!