Haxe Roundup 538

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 part 2. Will Detective Haxe redeem himself and overcome his inner demons?
• HaxeUI v1.1 has been released by Ian Harrigan. Lots of bug fixes and some new components!

Videos & Music

• Using the final keyword in Haxe video by Richard Oliver Bray.
• Check out the Haxe Beginners Tutorial series on YouTube and the series source code available on GitHub.
• 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

• Justin Mills is looking for remote or UK (West Country) developer role.
• Kevin Leung is wondering if any Haxe Australian companies are hiring?
• Alexander Gordeyko is looking for a job.
• Spiele-Palast GmbH are looking for a full time Haxe game developer for web and mobile in Berlin.
• Fedor Strelkov is looking for someone to port a car racing test app from AS3 to Haxe/OpenFL.
• A bounty to port junkbyte’s flash-console to OpenFL for $50.
• 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

Code Examples

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

Previews & Demos

Open Source

• coconut.sync git - Coconut Data Synchronization - This library enables real-time & uni-directional synchronization of a coconut model over the network.
• Gauthier B has created Blue Sunset Flight for #js1024 made with Haxe and inspired by Filippo Bodei’s Drones game.
• Andreas Drewke has created a GIF to XFL-Test repo available on GitHub.
• Robert Alvarez has released Consumable Controls, his #GMTKJam entry available on itch.io. Made with Stencyl.
• Sébastien Bénard has released Dumber Dwarves, a dungeon crawler with uncontrollable adventurers! Made for the #GMTKJam. Available on itch.io and source code on GitHub.
• why-dragdrop git - Platform agnostic drag/drop library by Kevin Leung.
• Teen Island Simulator dev post by Oleg Dolya is available on itch.io and made with OpenFL.

Closed Source

• Kenny Goff is almost done with the next Double Turn game updates, profiles & alternate character palettes. Made with HaxeFlixel.
• Fedellen is tinkering around with lots of colour changes and polish since their last update. Made with Stencyl.

Some Library Releases

• haxe-strings 6.0.2
• broker 0.4.0
• sinker 0.4.0
• tink_typecrawler 0.7.0
• robotlegs 1.5.3
• holi 0.0.1
• hxWidgets 1.6.0
• haxeui-winforms 1.1.0
• haxeui-pixijs 1.1.0
• haxeui-openfl 1.1.0
• haxeui-nme 1.1.0
• haxeui-kha 1.1.0
• haxeui-hxwidgets 1.1.0
• haxeui-html5 1.1.0
• haxeui-core 1.1.0
• haxeui-theme-kenney 1.1.0
• bmpfont 0.0.2
• colyseus-websocket 1.0.9
• vscode 1.47.0
• swiftsuspenders 1.0.13
• 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 Shorthand nullable-type syntax 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 Default values for enum parameters.
• Do you have an idea to improve Haxe? Consider creating a proposal.

Core Changes

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

• Can’t bind extern inline function issue.
• Sqlite specification, fixes and tests merged.
• [js] Inline StringMap iterators merged.
• [abstracts] Code style changes for abstract unify functions merged.
• [abstracts] Change handling of transitive casts pull request.
• Support abstract modifier on classes and methods pull request.
• Class flags merged.