Haxe Roundup 529

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

• Haxe 4.1.0 has been released! Read all about the fastest target, the revamped Exception API, SSL, TRE and future features on the official announcement blog!
• Vadim Dyachenko has made Pixel font generator. Check out the blog post detailing the reasoning & motivation behind its creation. You can also download an offline version of the tool from itch.io.

Videos & Music

• Members of Osaka Red LLC have started livestreaming their OSS development process on Twitch and Youtube.
• New Stencyl quick tip by Luyren: Manual Timers.
• Armory3d | Half Life 2 Gravity Gun - showcase video by ArmoryBlender.
• New How-to videos about ArmorPaint (via Lubos Lenco):
  • Stencil Mask
  • Brush Jitter
  • Lazy Mouse
• Add a video related to Haxe.

Upcoming Events & Talks

• EU Haxe Summit 2020 - Let’s meet in Linz.
• Add an upcoming event about Haxe.

Job Offers & Bounties

• Playata are looking for a AS3/Haxe/PHP Software Developer to join them.
• Squidly has opened up a bounties page for HaxeFlixel features.
• Lars Doucet’s list of various open bounties.
• Add an available job involving Haxe.

Product Releases & Announcements

• After almost 2 years of work, Phantom Path by Kirill Poletaev will be released on Steam on May 15, 2020! Here are some new Phantom Path screenshots!
• Robert Alvarez has published the post-jam version of “Keep It Powered”, which contains 9 more levels, a music track, and other changes.

Code Examples

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

Previews & Demos

Open Source

• All the HaxeUI components GIF by Ian Harrigan.
• Matthijs Kamstra is working on a basic svg editor, as a dev exercise.
• Josh Tynala, the Feathers UI creator, has committed several keyboard improvements upstream to OpenFL.
• First draft of the HxDoom Readme by Kaelan Evans.
• Rune Generator source code has been published to GitHub by Oleg Dolya.
• Cross-Land, a 2D platformer game by TeaLBiTZ has been released. Give it a try!
• Koui is a very fast and flexible retained mode UI library for Kha. It is free and open-source.

Closed Source

• Syo shows off optimized physics & destructible physics in jittersandbox, made with Heaps.
• Aditya Chaudhary previews trickier levels in their puzzle game, made with Stencyl.
• Filippo Bodei has added particle explosions to their HaxeFlixel game Drones, available on Newgrounds.
• Filippo Bodei has created Super Minesweeper using HaxeFlixel, available on Android and iOS.
• The Badlad from Renaine has a brawnier version known as the… Biglad!
• A new game by Ben Simms now has a name - “Lost”. Check out the game intro.
• Color Conjunction now with hexagonal tiles by shaman4d.
• A browser version of DEBUGGER by Ruari O’Sullivan has been released.
• 100% GOLF by Alex Johansson submitted for review with Apple.
• Rough/not final art from WIP turn based puzzle game by mauve.
• A couple of quick videos by Urjasvi Suthar:
  • Basic perlin terrain generation.
  • Smooth terrain.
• A couple of quick videos and some screenshots from WIP game Skullz’n’Skeletons by Pizza:
  • Music A.
  • Music B.
  • Please help me decide.
  • Care for another decision?

Some Library Releases

• color 1.0.4
• hxcpp 4.1.1
• info 1.1.0
• signals 1.3.1
• notifier 1.1.21
• location 1.2.0
• pony 1.3.1
• pixijs 5.1.2
• pony 1.2.8
• jsasync 0.2.6
• connectsdk 19.0.11
• vscode 1.45.0
• openfl-aseprite 1.3.0
• ase 1.1.0
• riverbed 0.0.1
• utils 1.0.12
• cobbles 0.101.0
• html-inline 0.3.1
• Spork 0.4.0
• tink_json 0.10.5
• differ 1.4.0
• Checkout the most recent library releases on HaxeLib.

Framework Updates

• None found 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 Typed Metadata proposal.
• 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

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

• Add final inference discussion.
• [js] Fix Object, Reflect and Proxy merged.
• [js] Allows js.lib.Symbol instances a property names closed.
• [php] Doctyping arrays idea.
• Remove Lexer fmt_string mapping and process strings based on their single quotedness merged.