Haxe Roundup 587

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

• Advanced Enums article written by Kino Rose.
• Dead Cells mobile has surpassed two million units in China!
• Feathers UI beta.4 preview build on HaxeLib post by Josh Tynjala.
• The latest posts from Oleg Dolya - WIP: forest blobs in Perilous Shores and Perilous Shores 1.1.3: forest blobs, expanded palette.
• Not Haxe related but Shiro Games has announced their new publishing label, Shiro Unlimited. Little article on gamesindustry about it.

Videos & Music

• Introduction to HaxeFlixel Part 19 by Questionable Programming.
• How to create a 2D projectile trajectory path for HaxeFlixel (part 2) by Richard Oliver Bray.
• Axol Studio Presents: Code Along - Episode 01: BreakOut Part 1 by Axol Studio.
• Axol Studio Presents: Code Along - Episode 02: BreakOut Part 2 by Axol Studio.
• Add a video related to Haxe.

Jobs, Bounties

• Add an available job involving Haxe.

Looking for work

• Peter Achberger is available for freelance work.
• Andreas Drewke is looking for a freelancer job or part time job.

Job listings

• Nexters (Moscow, Russia) are looking for a Haxe developer to work on the web-version of their project Throne Rush.
• A short term & remote code review job for a HaxeFlixel Browser Game is available.
• Saga Education are looking to hire a full-time software engineer focusing on web & edtech. US only.

  • Saga Education, is hiring a senior-level software engineer. We use a lot of tech, both frontend and backend, but a lot of our frontend code is in Haxe. We build cool, meaningful EDTech products like this digital whiteboard: Woot Math Scratchpad.

• HaxeFlixel RPG project.
• Shiro Games are looking for an Engine/Graphics programmer.
• 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

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

Product Releases & Announcements

From the Haxe Discord

• Arachnid56 has released “Escape Room” available on itch.io, their first 3D game jam submission for #The Indie Tales Jam, made with Heaps.
• DinoMa has released their first game “Locked In”, made with HaxeFlixel, available on itch.io.
• Dean has released updates to his game “Stupid Aliens!”, made with HaxeFlixel and available on itch.io.

From the Armory Discord

• Daniel Jackson has released Space Ship Ping Pong, available from itch.io.

Previews & Demos

Open Source

Community Previews

• Gauthier Billot’s entry to js1024 using Haxe: A breakout game in less than 1024 bytes.

From the Haxe Discord

• Rabia Alhaffar has released a bunch of externs which you could find on GitHub or install from HaxeLib.
• Ludovic Bas is working on presets for actuate.
• LordMZTE’s first Heaps project for learning - an implementation of Langton’s ant with some added rainbowyness.
• Ben Van Treese has “had some time to do some goofing off and setup [their] weird twitter bot back up https://twitter.com/SpiritGenerator”, built using storygen git and langgen git.

Git Repos

• Feathers UI v1.0.0-beta.4 for Haxe and OpenFL pre-release.
• haxelibmanager git - Just to manage installed haxelibs. Looking to add ability to change Haxe and HaxeLib locations in future. Alpha version.
• Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.

Closed Source

• Michael Bickel has removed all "internal volumes, connectivity candidates are merged (space-filling volumes) into portals that form a n-way graph for finding paths around the structure. "
• Ty is revisiting a rhythm-fishing idea, made with HaxeFlixel.
• Nuclear Blaze SCP is getting hidden secrets and extra lore added by Sébastien Bénard.
• Michael Bickel has made progress on his autonomous lawnmower, with the next task to make the blades spin autonomously… 🤖⚔
• Tizilogic is “implementing 2D FABRIK with joint constraints…”, using Kha.
• Using teleportation to get extra height in new WIP game by Robert Alvarez.
• Questionable Programming has finally got their Haxe shirt

From the Haxe Discord server

• LDenner is “working out a new vehicle system that lets you place cannons/chests/sprinklers or whatnot onto vehicle”.

Some Library Releases

• grig.pitch 0.0.2
• node-fetch 2.6.3
• coconut.feathersui 1.0.5
• lcov 1.1.0
• openfl-gpu-particles 0.0.3
• nwjs 1.2.0
• mc2it_theme 0.3.0
• openfl-glsl 0.1.0
• feathersui 1.0.0-beta.4
• hxscrupp 1.0.1
• hxlovr 1.0.0
• hxtico 1.0.0
• hxluaplayer 1.0.0
• hxlppvita 1.0.0
• hxlpp3ds 1.0.0
• hxjin 1.0.0
• hxdrystal 1.0.0
• hxaroma 1.0.0
• hxnodejs-serialport 1.3.0
• glory 2.1.1
• deepnightLibs 1.0.60
• Check out the most recent library releases on HaxeLib.

People & Projects to support

• Funkin’ Crew is making Friday Night Funkin’, a cartoon rhythm gaming excellence
• 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 Safe navigation operator proposal.
• 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

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

• Nothing this week.