Haxe Roundup 531

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 4.1.1 has been released!
• Module-level fields are here! Head over to the announcement blog and community thread for more info.
• Alex Johansson has posted to TigSource his devlog about the various recent changes made to his game Morse.
• MFCG, VG and CityViewer have been updated devlog by Oleg Dolya.

Videos & Music

• 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 add playable video on iOS and Android for $1000.
• 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

• Phil Leichty has posted a trailer for their recently released physics based puzzle game called Ring The Bell, made with Stencly and available from the Play Store.
• Castle Pals (originally made with Stencyl) releases this week on PlayStation 4, XboxOne & Nintendo Switch! Port made by Ratalaika Games.
• BRDG by Robert Alvarez now has a Steam page.
• IriySoft made Moto Maniac, a small tilty bike game.
• Small tweaks and new translations for Pixel Font Converter by Vadim Dyachenko.

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

• hxmoveapi git Haxe bindings for the PS Move Controller low level api powered by ammer.
• Austin East has written a little pixel perfect outline shader for HaxeFlixel.
• haxeui-theme-kenney git CSS theme. Not related to Haxe, but might be interesting if you remember HaxeUI theme GIF from previous roundup.

Closed Source

• Aura Effect in Armory3d. Coming soon on YouTube!
• Space cleaner from JitterSandbox by Syo.
• Multiple shaders in Lewis Lepton’s personal game engine.
• The Renaine team invites you to just sit back and enjoy the atmosphere.
• shaman4d has finished Klondike Solitaire, made with OpenFL.
• Merrak has created a system that lets them create per-frame hit boxes, made with Stencyl.
• Filippo Bodei now has water reflection in his game, made with HaxeFlixel.
• Aditya Chaudhary has added portals to make their levels tougher, made with Stencyl.
• Some screenshots of WIP WAD viewer by Kaelan Evans.
• Mauve has added debug keys to test progression in his WIP turn based puzzle game.
• Robert Clemmons Jr. is making Moon Plant Of Horror (with HaxeFlixel), a sci fi cosmic horror mash up about trying to take care of a strange plant.
• Urjasvi Suthar has started working on Marching Cubes tutorial for Kha.
• Button graphics in Go! Go! PogoGirl by Andrej.
• A race against rolling spikes by Robert Alvarez.
• Quick videos and screenshots from Skullz’n’Skeletonz by Pizza:
  • Room is small, music is long.
  • Gave the music a reason.
  • Left or right?

Some Library Releases

• echo 1.5.3
• Spork 0.6.0
• vshaxe 2.20.0
• lcov 1.0.3
• whatformat 0.2.1
• wronganswer 0.1.0
• echo 1.5.2
• quadtree 0.5.0
• haxefmod 0.2.0-alpha
• react 1.11.1
• mini-mighty-engine 1.4.1
• bytetype 0.6.0
• heapsOgmo 0.0.13
• 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 local variable metadata proposal.
• 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

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

• StringTools.unsafeCharAt merged.
• Make ParserEntry.parse/parse_string methods accept grammar entry merged.
• [hxcpp] Fix class path for extern and nativeGen classes pull request.
• [hxcpp] Regex inconsistent behaviour issue.
• [js/es5] Super call missing when extending 2 levels issue.