Haxe Roundup 525

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

• Formatter 1.10.1 has been released.
• HaxeFlixel have just launched snippets.haxeflixel.com a beginner friendly resource for learning HaxeFlixel!
• RPG Playground games are now playable on mobile! So grab your phone or tablet and start playing the top games at rpgplayground/popular!
• RPG Map Editor 2 Update 16 - The huge one by Sébastien Bénard.
• Oleg Dolya has created Village Generator which is made with Haxe and OpenFL.
• The results for #StencylJam19 will be released next week!
• Small Untitled RPG Devlog 6 by Peter Achberger.
• Nightly builds of HIDE are now available!

Videos & Music

• hello… video by Lewis Lepton, where he talks about his and the channels future plans.
• How to Install CastleDB on Ubuntu Linux video.
• Skullz 'n Skeletonz Triple Comparison video by Pizza.
• Add a video related to Haxe.

Upcoming Events & Talks

• Newgrounds is hosting the HaxeFlixel Game Jam, ending on April 27th! With prizes ranging from $50-$350.
• EU Haxe Summit 2020 - Let’s meet in Linz.
• Add an upcoming event about Haxe.

Job Offers & Bounties

• Squidly has opened up a bounties page for HaxeFlixel features and one of the them is already claimed.
• 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

• None this week.

Code Examples

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

Previews & Demos

Open Source

• Ian Harrigan previews some HaxeUI styling fun using the current styling engine.
• Covid19 series: Keep your distance by Matthijs Kamstra.
• terminaljs git is a dead simple JavaScript library for emulating a shell environment, rewritten in Haxe.
• gohl git is a WIP Hashlink bindings for GoLang.
• Robert Konrad is working on a Haxe port of nanovg, the vector graphics rendering library.
• FPS viewer is coming soon to Heeps by Pavel Alexandrov.

Closed Source

• Live brush preview and path-tracing in ArmorPaint by Lubos Lenco.
• Danny Yaroslavski demos some collision gamedev tips.
• Ben Simms shows off the physics that he added to his latest game and a little video of the “reset” action.
• Alex Johansson is happy to announce his latest project. 100% GOLF! It’s putting with percentages.
• Poor Thief’s “Jungle Theme” written by Lewmoth Music. via Tom Brinton.
• Boing boing boing boing boing boing and better be careful with that timing game previews by Andrej.
• Adding more basic features for ‘GamBas’ by Lukman Al.
• Some early in-progress level work by MortMort.
• Animated leaves have been added to one of the log’s graphical variations in Leapin Lads by Cory Martin.
• Heaps.io shooter by William Dyce has reached the “technically a game” stage of development.
• Drop-in/drop-out split screen co-op WIP for Ritz DX by ninja_muffin.
• The Finished inventory system in the WIP Heaps.io game by GlassySundew.
• Level selection screen in WIP turn based puzzle game by mauve is coming together.
• Some lighting stuff in SUPER Cute Alien.
• Hexagonal autotile with Heaps by NansVPN.
• Parallax and moving objects in a new Kha based game engine by mundusnine.
• Naxe is working with shaders.

Some Library Releases

• connectsdk 19.0.5
• DomWires 1.0.0-alpha.12
• tink_core 1.26.0
• deepnightLibs 0.0.37
• mtasa-types 0.0.27
• astar 1.0.1
• json2object 3.8.0
• genes 0.2.1
• formatter 1.10.1
• tokentree 1.0.26
• dox 1.5.0
• flixel 4.7.0
• hscript 2.4.0
• hx-pub-demo 0.0.2
• vscode-debugadapter 1.40.0
• vscode 1.44.0
• 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

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

• Less local variable renaming in compiled code merged.
• Use native PHP implementations for SHA merged.
• Weird tempvaring issue.
• Better error reporting upon compiler crashes merged.
• Find references of the base field or include descendant fields pull request.