Haxe Roundup 547

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 4.1.4 has been released!
• Mark Knol has written a post mortem about his #js13k game “You Have Found” built with Haxe.
• PogoGirl Devlog #5: SAGE Aftermath by Andrej from Ohsat Games.
• FeathersUI backend for coconut.ui showcase.

Videos & Music

• Why Haxe was used for the indie battle royale game Spellbreak video by Richard Oliver Bray.
• How to make sprites move with the keyboard controls in HaxeFlixel video by Richard Oliver Bray.
• Add a video related to Haxe.

Upcoming Events & Talks

• HaxeIn 2020 virtual Haxe Summit on October 14-17th 2020.
  • Matthijs Kamstra has submitted his Haxe talk for the HaxeIn Summit.
  • Lewis Lepton’s talk hasn’t been accepted. But he’s going to record it anyway…
• Add an upcoming event about Haxe.

Jobs, Bounties

• Add an available job involving Haxe.

Looking for work

• Justin Mills is looking for a fulltime job. Justin is an ex Flash/AIR/Away3D/Papervision3D expert who’s been using Haxe for 10 years, a good lateral thinker & loves visual stuff, maths and capable at fine art.
• Andreas Drewke is looking for a part time job.
• 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

• Mantengase al tanto is a prototype of a serious game about HIV available on itch.io. By baku from Haxe discord server.
• Its About The Journey steam store page has been published by MortMort, made in Stencyl.
• Double Kick Heroes has crossed 50k players!
• Shiro Games announces that Northgard has sold 2 million units!
• Spellbreak has posted their roadmap with info on upcoming patches, new features, the chapter system, modes, guilds and more!
• Dicey Dungeons v1.9 is out now on Steam and Itch! Featuring Japanese and Welsh translations, lots of new remix rules and lots of other little improvements! By Terry Cavanagh. 🎲
• Golf Zero is another Stencyl game on consoles!
• A new release of RPG Playground! Choose the appearance (sprite) of any character using actions.
• Vasco has released a beta version of Freeway Fury: Alien Annihilation on Google Play, made with HaxeFlixel.
• LunaTechsDev announced 4 additional RPGMaker plugins made with Haxe!

Code Examples

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

Previews & Demos

Open Source

• Nanjizal has ported the JS WebGL example to Haxe.
• Ian Harrigan has been giving the HaxeUI HaxeFlixel backend a little needed love. It now integrates into HaxeFlixel better and comes with a face-lift.
• PXShadow shows off an updated benchmark for weblink, a Hashlink powered libuv server, which is already faster than the NodeJS libraries Express & Fastify.
• Kaelan has ported Doom’s Fixed point typed to Haxe.
• Oleg Dolya is trying out a new algorithm for cutting blocks into lots / buildings for their procedural city generator. 🏰
• snekky-lang 0.4.0 has been released.
• tiny-haxe-engine git - This is a tiny haxe engine for making tiny HTML5 games! It’s loosely inspired by Pico 8, and aims to provide similar functionality!
• uwebsockets-extern git - Haxe externs for uWebSockets.
• hxchokidar git - Haxe externs for chokidar, a neat wrapper around Node.js fs.watch / fs.watchFile / FSEvents in a type safe manner and with the power of Haxe.
• Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.

Closed Source

• Jefvel shows off team select and fighting till death in their Haxe Heaps powered game.
• The little battle dudes in Jefvel’s Haxe Heap game and the pink guys won the game.
• Vikkio has finally managed to spend some time on their sailing simulator, written in Haxe & Heaps, by implementing a timed race track.
• Filippo Bodei previews his work in-progress GoGoSpace entry for #agbic made with HaxeFlixel.
• Renaine previews The Krakling Krew in the first cutscene where Aine encounters them.
• Lasers can either be destroyed or blocked in WIP puzzle game by Robert Alvarez.
• Vsio NeithR has implemented stage selection to level selection and vice versa in KelinKelilin.
• The ANNIVERSARIES update for Little Square Things is on track, with some tweaks, new pieces, and (so far) 16 more levels! More to come on the 29th.
• Kenny Goff is working on a training mode for Double Turn.
• This akai fire screen took Jeremy Meltingtallow a while to figure out but he is one step closer to a custom renoise controller. And Lua target makes it easy to call enoise specific code.
• Joaquin Bello still need to add a lot of stuff, but its always nice to add some kind of finish art.

Some Library Releases

• led-haxe-api 1.0.8
• utils 1.1.5
• llama 1.1.0
• swf 3.0.2
• uniontypes 0.3.0
• echo 2.1.1
• wrenparse 0.0.2
• uuid 2.1.0
• uwebsockets 0.0.1
• vscode 1.49.0
• gmodhaxe 0.1.2
• dropecho.langgan 0.6.0
• hxWebSockets 1.3.5
• Check out the most recent library releases on HaxeLib.

People & Projects to support

• Ian Harrigan is working on primarily HaxeUI, as well as hxArduino & hxWebSockets.
• Kaelan Evans is working on HxDoom, a Haxe adaption of Doom.
• 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 destructive assignments proposal.
• Add notation for native optional arguments proposal.
• Add Matcher: setting variables and guard as expression in a pattern proposal.
• 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

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

• Use hx-lua-simdjson for Lua JSON parsing merged.