Haxe Roundup 573

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 First HaxeIn of 2021 Is Just Around the Corner event has been announced for April 15th.
• Sébastien Bénard has posted an update about 2021 roadmap for Deepnight Games.
• Object Pooling in HaxeFlixel article by Kino.
• How to package Haxe output into a DLL post with haxe-c-bridge git.

Videos & Music

• Introduction to HaxeFlixel Part 5 by Questionable Programming.
• HaxeFlixel - Invincibility Effect video by Kino Rose.
• Launching our Third Monthly Mini-Game for 2021: Planet Defense! by Axol Studio.
• Add a video related to Haxe.

Upcoming Events & Talks

• Add an upcoming event about Haxe.

Jobs, Bounties

• Add an available job involving Haxe.

Job listings

• To reach their goal of helping to save one million lives every year by 2030, Laerdal is looking for a Software Platform Developer to join them in Copenhagen. Remote work is possible, but will require several days a week on site.
• Shiro Games are looking for an Engine/Graphics programmer.
• Shiro Games are still looking for people to join their team of passionate developers in Bordeaux to work on a new unannounced project.
• 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.
• BeeInventor Limited are hiring for a Haxe fullstack developer to join them in Taipei & Hong Kong.

Bounties

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

Product Releases & Announcements

• Luyren adds Z ordering sorting to their AI and Combat Pack, available on itch.io, made with Stencyl.
• William Dyce has released their little experiment made with Haxe & Heaps, Dinosocial Distancing, available now on itch.io.
• Robert Alvarez has released their newest game Gravisquare, available now on Newgrounds and itch.io, made with Stencyl.
• Ribbit Digits! made by torcado for the ChainLetterJam.
• Spellbreak’s Chapter 2: The Fracture is being rolled out today!

Code Examples

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

Previews & Demos

Open Source

Community Previews

• Nanjizal shares a 9-slice demo over on the Haxe Discord channel, with also a diagram of their 9-slice internals.

Git Repos

• Iron 21.04 has been released.
• Armory 21.04 has been released.
• linc_opus git - Modern audio compression for the internet.
• linc_skeleton git - A LINC (Haxe/C++) library for reading and writing Ogg Skeleton data.
• linc_vpx git - A libvpx LINC binding for Haxe.
• linc_nestegg git - A Haxe LINC library for nestegg, a WebM demuxer.
• linc_oggz git - A Haxe C++ binding for liboggz.
• Aseprite-Viewer git - A project that allows you to view asesprite files in HaxeFlixel and see the tags and animations by Kino.
• whet git - Haxe based project configuration, building and tooling.
• haxxServer git - HTTP Server written in Haxe.
• kadabra git - Kadabra Game & App Editor. Create your scenes and prepare your assets and UI. Made with Haxe & OpenFl but can be used for any language and engine.
• [lixpm] newestLixLibs git - CLI Tool to help update all Haxe libraries for a project to their newest needed version.
• Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.

Closed Source

• Jefvel shares a video of their minesweeper & tower define game over on the Haxe Discord channel.
• Hadhoke’s first time with Haxe and Heaps, with their game currently more a hexagon based map editor, shared over on the Haxe Discord channel.
• Merrak shares an Happy Easter Card, from an assortment of assets from the second level of Rogue of Vallas.
• “When something moves in front of a star, it becomes a silhouette” by Immanent Death, made with Stencyl.
• Syo previews atmospheric management and Fire vs vacuum in Jitter Sandbox, made with Heaps.
• 0x3fc is experimenting 2.5D with HaxeFlixel.
• A couple of GIFs from WIP game by lampysprites:
  • Very early build.
  • A game .
• New quick videos from the WIP port of Mine Blocks:
  • Protect me, my frosted minions!
  • It’s fun to port a thing and see how well it works - or more interestingly, how it breaks!
• New quick videos from WIP Stage Dive & Bad Soccer Manager by Jano Games:
  • New mini game - The chairman’s cat is on the pitch.
  • Choose a new sponsor at the ground.
• Quick video and screenshots from WIP game by mauve:
  • Decided to add some big chunky effects.
  • Feel like head portraits have consistently gotten better with time.
  • I finally caved and added a menu option to display a grid.
  • Added an option for high resolution fonts.

Some Library Releases

• timber 1.0.0
• tink_slice 0.2.0
• coconut.data 0.12.0
• tink_macro 0.23.0
• Check out the most recent library releases on HaxeLib.

People & Projects to support

• Patrick is creating Raspberry Pi 4 support for Haxe/Lime/OpenFL/HaxeFlixel.
• Josh Tynjala is working on Feathers UI — open source, cross-platform UI components built with OpenFL.
• 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

• Add Destructor proposal.
• Add enum abstract over enum proposal.
• Add Enum abstract instances proposal.
• Add Null coalescing operator proposal.
• Add local static proposal.
• Allow enums to opt-out of publishing their constructors in the implicit global scope proposal.
• Add destructive assignments 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

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

• Nothing of interest this week.