Haxe Roundup 541

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

• Scoped CSS comes to HaxeUI, read more on the announcement thread.
• Fun vs. Balance: Defender’s Quest 2 Progress Report for July 2020 by Lars Doucet.
• Should Haxers apply for Pythonist roles? by Justin Mills.
• What do you need to help contribute to OpenFL?

Videos & Music

• What is Lix and how does it work in Haxe video by Richard Oliver Bray.
• Add a video related to Haxe.

Upcoming Events & Talks

• Go! Go! PogoGirl by Andrej will be at SAGE 2020 September 5th-12th.
• 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.

Jobs, Bounties

• Add an available job involving Haxe.

Looking for work

• Andreas Drewke is looking for a part time job.
• Justin Mills is looking for remote or UK (West Country) developer role.
• Kevin Leung is wondering if any Haxe Australian companies are hiring?
• Torcado is looking for a publisher/indie fund to help him fund the rest of the development for Heck Deck. He would love to know any recommendations you may have.

Job listings

• MY.GAMES (Moscow, Russia) are looking for Haxe programmer to work on UI system for their new game project Warface: Breakout.
• Spiele-Palast GmbH are looking for a full time Haxe game developer for web and mobile in Berlin.

Bounties

• Squidly has opened up a bounties page for HaxeFlixel features.
• Lars Doucet’s list of various open bounties.

Product Releases & Announcements

• A web application made with Haxe and React that gives people an idea of how long the amount of caffeine they consume will stay in their system.
• 100 vacas by Eduardo Alonso had been submitted for review. If everything goes well, it will be released on August 17th.
• Double Kick Heroes will release on Nintendo Switch & Steam August 13th! GamePass and for sale on Xbox One & Microsoft Store August 28th! Watch the Release Date Teaser Trailer and read the AMA on reddit.

Code Examples

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

Previews & Demos

Open Source

• To celebrate the 9th anniversary of Cardinal Quest (aka CQ1) release Ido has decided to make the game’s repository public on GitHub.
• Cybernetically enhaxed web app by Jeremy Meltingtallow with source code available on GitHub.
• HxDoom Lovr Demo by Kaelan Evans. Here is a little Twitter thread about it.
• ZUI 2020.8 has been release.
• haxe-instrument 1.1.0 has been released.
• cog git - Macro powered ECS Framework written in Haxe.
• famuz git - Famuz is a programming language that compiles to Midi. The goal of this project is to create music from atomic musical definitions.
• bitvector git - A bit vector implementation for Haxe.
• A couple of quick videos by Kevin Leung showing his platform agnostic drag & drop Haxe library:
  • A clearer video demonstrating drag & drop filtering.
  • This is how actual “drop” looks like.
• Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.

Closed Source

• Watch him burn… by Havana24.
• Early Melon has joined Evil Empire.
• Luyren has overhauled the experience system from their Stencyl resource pack.
• Fedellen is putting together a magical 2D platformer demo for their range of assets, made in Stencyl.
• The post-jam version of Consumable Controls by Robert Alvarez is now published with 9 more levels and other changes.

Some Library Releases

• socket-bar 1.4.0
• robotlegs 2.0.0
• swiftsuspenders 1.1.0
• josephsmendoza.ipc 1.0.5
• physxhx 1.0.0
• reckoner 0.1.0
• cog 1.0.0
• utest 1.13.0
• p2p 0.1.42
• instrument 1.1.0
• utils 1.1.1
• notifier 1.1.23
• Check out the most recent library releases on HaxeLib.

Framework Updates

• [Kinc] Implement Vulkan raytracing has been merged.
• [hxmath] Inline default math type constructors merged.
• [tink_state] No dependency on Measurement merged.
• [format] Added RLE support to BMP pull request.

People & Projects to support

• Richard Oliver Bray is teaching people the things he’s learnt, like React, Typescript and Haxe.
• 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 Single pattern check proposal.
• 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

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

• !is operator discussion.
• Allow overload on extern methods on all targets merged.
• [std] Remove Null from optional fields, arguments merged.
• [hxcpp] Adding proper implementation for api_buffer_val for Neko pull request.