Haxe Roundup 533

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

• The type inference mystery novel Haxe blog post.
• Justin Donaldson has announced that Haxe and Hashlink are now on Mac homebrew!

Videos & Music

• Add a video related to Haxe.

Upcoming Events & Talks

• HaxeIn 2020 virtual Haxe Summit on October 14-17th 2020.
  • With Matthijs Kamstra and Lewis Lepton planning on submitting talk proposals.
• Add an upcoming event about Haxe.

Job Offers & Bounties

• Alexander Gordeyko is looking for a job.
• 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

• Alex Johansson has released 100% GOLF, putt with percentages across 27 holes, along with endless mode! Made with Stencyl and available now on iOS, with over 27k pre-orders and being#1 in the sports charts!
• An important CrossCode related question has finally been answered: Consoles When? JULY 9TH (Switch + PS4 + Xbox One). Cheers to Robert Konrad and his hard work on the AOT JS compiler, built with Haxe!
• The Going Rogue update is now available for Darksburg.
• Medieval Fantasy City Generator 0.7.6 has added landmarks by Oleg Dolya.
• Edu Alonso has launched the 100 Vacas Steam store page! Made with HaxeFlixel.
• Havana24 has released Hole in Clone, for the '#gameloopit` jam and made with Stencyl. Check it out over on itch.io.
• Spirkop Games has published their Steam page for Energy Island Corp which is being made with PhaserJS and Haxe.
• Spacejacked has launching into hyperspace… And if it’s not destroyed by aliens it will arrive on Nintendo Switch & Xbox One this Friday! Originally it was made with HaxeFlixel, and ported to consoles by Ratalaika Games.
• Haxe icon support has been added to Monokai Pro for VSCode.

Code Examples

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

Previews & Demos

Open Source

• New wiki page has been created for games made with Armory.
• Nanjizal has written a summary about Trilateral3.
• Undefinist has ported and released mikktspacehx git.
• Kyubuns has added NullSafety in hxbitmini and made a pull request for HxBit as well.
• HXVG git is a Haxe NanoVG Implementation by 'Damilare Darmie Akinlaja.
• hxglfw git is a work in progress haxe/hxcpp wrapper around GLFW by Valentin Lemière. He is also working on hxwgpu git - a wrapper around wgpu-native, allowing the use of the WebGPU API on desktop.

Closed Source

• The newest Renegade Racing iOS release is now using NME instead of Legacy OpenFL.
• Ammo crate painted in Armor Paint by ArmoryBlender. Maybe there will be a video tutorial?
• MortMort Pew Pew Pew mobile game made with Stencyl.
• Filippo Bodei has added custom camera shaders to achieve water reflection at the very bottom end of the stage. Made with HaxeFlixel.
• Screenshots from “WAD Corruptor” by Kaelan Evans.
• Moody lighting by jefvel.
• A couple of new GIFs from WIP puzzle platformer by Robert Alvarez:
  • Unstable blocks can only be collided with once.
  • Stepping on switches to create solid blocks.
• Kirill Poletaev is working on a new 3D platformer game, so here are some quick videos of the prototype:
  • Early gameplay prototype.
  • Gameplay prototype. Graphics are temporary.
  • I guess I’m making a platformer now.

Some Library Releases

• react-next 1.121.0
• apollo 0.2.2
• haxefmod 0.3.2-alpha
• formatter 1.11.0
• tokentree 1.0.28
• gafplayer-starling 2.0.0
• extype 2.2.2
• hxbitmini 1.1.0
• ihx 0.4.0
• hlc-compiler 0.1.0
• locator 0.3.0
• electron 9.0.3
• escript 0.4.1
• coroutine 2.0.0
• yield 3.1.0
• 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 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

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

• Constrained monomorphs merged.
• Static extensions vs constrained monomorphs fixed.
• Class.new doesn’t handle type constraints fixed.
• Monomorph constraints for operators issue.
• Type parameter constraints on local functions issues.
• [hxcpp] Fix typing for abstracts pull request.
• [hxcpp] Add a way to define an extern class type parameter as a templated one pull request.
• [dce] Dont process expressions of extern classes merged.
• Optimize Path.UniqueKey.create which slightly reduces unit test compile times & eval runtime by 10% merged.