Haxe Roundup 522

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

• NewsGrounds are hosting the HaxeFlixel Game Jam! This is a good opportunity to learn things like VisualStudio, HaxeFlixel and Ogmo Editor!
• You can get a copy of SUPER Cute Alien, 100% free, yours forever to keep. Stay at home. Be safe.
• Urjasvi Suthar has created a new tutorial website, which will house Armory3D, Iron and Kha tutorials.

Videos & Music

• Add a video related to Haxe.

Upcoming Events & Talks

• Stencyl Jam #19! March 27th - April 6th. You can sign up at Stencyls website.
• 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

• Dicey Dungeons - Switch Announcement Trailer.
• Havana24 has released Soul Shape, his entry for the Weekly Game Jam #140 with the theme “Shapeshift”.

Code Examples

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

Previews & Demos

Open Source

• GraphSynth git - a node-based graphical synthesizer.
• HaxeTroid git - A tutorial for making a neato HaxeFlixel game.
• 4d4ch1 from Discord and his team have participated in the NTI IRS 2019-2020 competition and used Haxe to work with a robotics platform which has JavaScript runtime. The competition is over so they decided to open source their code.
• Nanjizal has made some tweaks, updates and internal improvements for Covid-19 cases map for the UK.
• Luyren has released Utility Pack for making Stencyl games. Just in time to be used in the upcoming Stencyl Jam!

Closed Source

• MortMort has worked a little bit on the Rebbi game.
• Finally, some proper lighting in SUPER Cute Alien.
• Pizza is making Skullz ‘n’ Skeletonz. Now with a new PC.
• Morse by Alex Johansson is now fully turn based. Here’s a 15 minute playthrough of the game with developer commentary. And you can contact Alex if you want to help to test this game.
• WIP Pogo Platformer by Andrej now has a name and a logo! And Andrej has added new Patreon perks for those who want to support the development of his games: you can get sneak peeks, beta builds and discounts, so check it out!
• A couple of new GIFs from Scrapworks game:
  • Here’s what the Forge looks like now.
  • Item durability has been implemented, as well as the shovel.
• Progress report from Michael Bickel about his experiments with drones 🛸 and Haxe:
  • Full system test soon.
  • Full stack is online now. Now it’s time to review the flight-logic.
  • Ok, quick hack, salvaged some code from another project.

Some Library Releases

• bind 0.4.6
• mtasa-types 0.0.25
• electron 8.2.0
• undraw-react 1.8.0
• undraw 1.8.0
• banker 0.2.0
• react-portal 1.0.0
• xa3.format 0.2.0
• haxework 1.3.0
• sbComponents 0.0.7
• ripper 0.2.2
• sneaker 0.7.0
• utils 1.0.11
• info 1.0.9
• nova 0.5.1
• notifier 1.1.20
• pony 1.2.6
• llama 0.1.0
• 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.
• 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 Default implementations in interfaces proposal.
• 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

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

• Auto initialize Int, Float and Bool fields with @:basicDefaults meta pull request.
• Allow no type hint for catch var pull request.
• Bound method propagation feature request.