Haxe Roundup 553

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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

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Videos & Music

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Upcoming Events & Talks

Jobs, Bounties

Looking for work

  • Javid Jafari is looking for a job. 🆕
  • Joshua Granick is looking for paid 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

  • Bloognoo is looking for a Haxe developer to help them save live venues. 🆕
  • The team behind Forge of Empires at InnoGames is looking for a Haxe developer, feel free to contact Dan Korostelev in case of any questions! More info can be found at the company’s website.

Bounties

Product Releases & Announcements

  • Shiro Games will release their next update, the Clan of the Dragon for PS4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch on November 17th.
  • Oded Rosenblatt has submitted their Ludum Dare entry, Donut Island, the final version, to Newgrounds. Made with HaxeFlixel.
  • The next update to Dicey Dungeons will feature a Catalan translation.
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Code Examples

Previews & Demos

Open Source

Closed Source

Some Library Releases

People & Projects to support

  • Pavel Alexandrov is primarily contributing to the Heaps engine and is the creator of format-tiled library.
  • 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

Core Changes

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

  • [cpp] Use cpp.Int64 for haxe.Int64 instead of a class pull request.
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  • Local variable might be uninitialized issue.
  • final var x parses successfully in expressions issue.
  • [hl] Skip compilation if no module has been changed merged.
  • [server] Weird ECast count when fatalError occurs issue.

You can get started using the latest features by downloading a nightly build of Haxe and see the impact the latest changes have on each target by browsing the benchmarks site.

Take it easy everyone, stay safe and have a good week!