Haxe Roundup 530

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

• JVM Typed Functions, how the new JVM target got so fast.
• You can now use TypeScript definitions with Haxe: dts2hx is ready to use!
• Fantasy Sphere RPG devlog #8 by Peter Achberger.
• RTA Outdoor Kitchen Design Tool by Allan Dowdeswell. Read more about it over on Allan’s blog!
• HashLink native extension tutorial from the Haxe community.

Videos & Music

• Luyren has released a new tutorial video about their Cutscene Resource Pack.
• Software & Workflow Tools by Lewis Lepton.
• 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

• OpenFL/Lime Bounty to play video on iOS and Android for $500.
• 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

• Alex Johansson game 100% GOLF, a minimalist golf game is coming to iOS June 11th!
• Shiro Games announced free update for Northgard: The Map Editor! And the game itself has arrived on GOG.com.
• Alex Johansson has received financial support from the UK Games Fund for his game, MORSE. Check out the announcement trailer.
• Phantom Path by Kirill Poletaev is available on Steam!

Code Examples

• Aleksandr Kuzmenko shares some Haxe tips:
  • Add global using to select types.
  • You can see the Haxe code after all optimisations with -D dump=pretty.
  • You can import static fields & use them unqualified.
• Have an example you want to add? Consider contributing to the code.haxe.org cookbook.

Previews & Demos

Open Source

• xSerial git by ʇ0mmy is a serial communication library for Haxe / C++.
• Lewis Lepton has opened sourced tode, a small game engine that uses Kha, Nape and Tiled, in very early stages of development.
• Nanjizal has created Trilateral3 git which is a rebuild of Trilateral and a rethink of Trilateral2.
• Lime GL test of trilateral2 by Nanjizal. With the source code available on GitHub.

Closed Source

• Painting different colors in MC by Urjasvi Suthar.
• SUPER Cute Alien has been invited to the Steam Game Festival, from June 9th to June 14th.
• Another missed Haxe game made for LD46 - Chaleace Tournament auto-battle made with Ceramic engine.
• Austin East shows testing out their dynamic goopy goop with stars.
• Web version of Domino Solitaire by Nick Grebenshikov.
• Robert L. Watson is working on Thief of Vallas Stencyl game.
• Vsio is working on optimisations and refactoring on KelinKeliln.
• A start of hexagonal grid game by opensussex.
• Shaman4d is working on solitaire game.
• Animation progress for warping between regions in Renaine.
• Locks and keys by Robert Alvarez.
• The hellhounds from WIP turn based puzzle game by mauve.
• Terry Cavanagh has helped make a digital version of Holly Gramazio’s Art Deck doodle. This was a very good project for getting the hang of Heaps.io.
• New GIFs from Skullz ‘n’ Skeletonz by Pizza:
  • Coding this health bar at 2am.
  • Big numbers for big numbers and smoll numbers for smoll numbers.

Some Library Releases

• deepnightLibs 0.0.41
• mcover 0.3.0
• broker 0.3.0
• banker 0.6.0
• ripper 0.3.2
• sneaker 0.9.1
• prayer 0.1.2
• sinker 0.2.0
• webstorage 1.0.2
• quadtree 0.4.3
• bytetype 0.5.3
• electron 9.0.0
• dropecho.dungen 0.7.1
• bind 0.4.7
• uuid 2.0.0
• connectsdk 19.0.12
• riverbed 0.0.2
• cobbles 0.101.1
• faxe2 0.4.0
• haxefmod 0.1.0-alpha
• jsasync 1.1.0
• safety 1.1.2
• nova 0.5.2
• gmodhaxe 0.0.1
• yield 3.0.1
• utest 1.10.3
• color 1.0.4
• hxcpp 4.1.1
• info 1.1.0
• signals 1.3.1
• notifier 1.1.21
• location 1.2.0
• 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

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

• The initial haxe, haxec, haxelib plan is being fleshed out.
• Module level static declarations has been merged.
• [draft] Allow object."field" syntax pull request.
• [draft] Proof of concept, trace rework pull request.
• Provide winget packages for Haxe issue.
• fastCodeAt that’s actually fast issue.