Haxe Roundup 519

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

• The EU Haxe Summit 2020 is now official! Find out everything from the announcement and the community thread.
• OpenFL 9 Development Update thread.
• Laser Lightning Bugs in the Spotlight: Defender’s Quest 2 Progress for February 2020 by Lars Doucet.
• Here are a few photos from PAX East 2020, where Octosoft team showed off Renaine:
  • Renaine is here once more, and a lil chompy is there, too!
  • Praise Chompy.
  • Thank you so much to Indie MEGABOOTH and Intel for the incredibly massive screen they loaned us! Made our booth look INCREDIBLE this year!
  • There are many other photos from the expo at the Octosoft Twitter account.

Videos & Music

• Armor Paint - Working with Materials - Beginner #3 video by ArmoryBlender.
• 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.
• EU Haxe Summit 2020 - Let’s meet in Linz.
• Add an upcoming event about Haxe.

Job Offers & Bounties

• New bounty by Kaleido Games: Bounty to make OpenFL work with (FNA/UWP).
• 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

• Robert Alvarez has released HP Atk Def, his newest puzzle game now available on itch.io, made with Stencyl.
• Bouncing ⚽ Ball by Aditya Chaudhary is out on Kongregate.

Code Examples

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

Previews & Demos

Open Source

• Aidan Lee has finished rewriting their IMGUI git bindings for Haxe, now generated from cimgui definitions.
• Ian Harrigan’s HaxeUI component explorer has been update with a lot of new examples!
• Shout 10.000 times 7*7 by Matthijs Kamstra.
• Kaelan Evans has split their Haxe Doom port into two projects: HxDoom is now a HaxeLib an adaption of id Tech 1 which does not come with rendering or IO and Citrus Doom is a Doom renderer built using Lime and HxDoom.
• Haxe + numba sample by Dima Granetchi.

Closed Source

• Syo Heaps powered game jittersandbox shows off MMCS - Mouse Movement Control System, the future of space mechanics!
• Alex Johansson is working on PARcentage. A game about putting with percentages.
• Robert Alvarez is already prototyping his next game which will be a sliding puzzle game with sticky blocks.
• Happy Wednesday quick video by fedellen.
• New GIFs and screenshots from the WIP Stencyl game called StarBurst:
  • New tutorial to explain the rules.
  • One of my worst fears! Floating out in space!
  • Couldn’t resist! The Tesla car, doing its thing.
• A couple of screenshots from WIP turn based puzzle game by mauve:
  • Freshening up the menus. A little bit of flair adds a lot.
  • I feel like I’ve been wandering for hours.

Some Library Releases

• HxDoom 0.0.3-alpha
• genes 0.1.0
• datetime 3.1.2
• mithril 2.2.0
• animate-cc-openfl 0.0.2
• haxeui-core 1.0.25
• haxeui-openfl 1.0.7
• haxeui-kha 1.0.5
• haxeui-hxwidgets 1.0.8
• haxeui-html5 1.0.6
• colyseus 0.12.5
• pony 1.2.0
• tracker 0.1.1
• notifier 1.1.18
• p2p 0.1.31
• dataclass 2.0.1
• sneaker 0.1.2
• OpenFL-Animate-Atlas-Player 1.9.1
• react-swipeable 1.0.0
• escript 0.4.0
• astar 0.2.3
• reaxe 1.0.3
• language-server-protocol 0.0.2
• Checkout the most recent library releases on HaxeLib.

Framework Updates

• None this week.

People & Projects to support

• Alexander Gordeyko is developing Pony, a Haxe open-cross-library.
• 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

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

• Refactor TyperDotPath merged.
• Fix error position for duplicate type declarations merged.
• [dce] Unification with an anon struct makes dce keep unused class fields issue.
• [hxcpp] Replace usage of gettimeofday in HXCPP standard library issue.
• [jvm] Generate interface-per-typedef, bringing class-to-anon benchmark from 5M to 120M samples, 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!