Haxe Roundup 595

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

• Questions coming from Rust (enums/traits).
• HaxeUI New Scrollbar default style change thread & preview.
• Heaps & Blender Model Animation Part 1 and Part 2 articles by Onyx Studios.
• Overcoming “Level Designer’s” Block – DQ2 Progress Report for August 2021 by Lars Doucet.
• Sigil Generator 1.1.0 - export and touch support by Oleg Dolya.
• Kino Rose announces that a New Game [is] in the Works, briefly talking about the content, systems and characters planned.

Videos & Music

• Introduction to HaxeFlixel Part 27 - Finishing up the Melee Test State by Questionable Programming.
• Add a video related to Haxe.

Jobs, Bounties

• Add an available job involving Haxe.

Looking for work

• Rudy Geslin is looking for full-time remote 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.
• Shiro Games are looking for a Senior Game 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

• Basic Platformer Pathfinding AI for HaxeFlixel $150 bounty.
• FlxG.collide with simple object “mass” for HaxeFlixel $100 bounty.
• Squidly has opened up a bounties page for HaxeFlixel features.

Product Releases & Announcements

• Closed Hands will be hitting Steam on October the 4th, containing much more content! Wishlist it on Steam now! via Dan Hett.
• Dark Light Swap by Robert Alvarez is now published on Itch.io and Newgrounds.
• Halfwheat has made a rhythm game available on GitLab.
• From the Armory Discord server, Offroad Mania CLASSIC 2 by GrMaster is available on Steam!

Previews & Demos

Open Source

Community Previews

• HaxeUI core treeview preview by Ian Harrigan, using ItemRenderers which allows you can get very creative.
• Justin has added an implementation of thickness gradient to cornerContour.
• Matthijs Kamstra has made some work on Haxe system documentation: added Eval examples and converted Haxe and system target documentation from GitBook to Docsify.

Git Repos

• haxe-maven-plugin git by Kevin Leung, via the Haxe Community.
• CeramicColors git - Colors app made in Ceramic and Haxe.
• keyson git - A parser for the tKE JSON format.
• hxgenpe git - Generate Portable Executable Binaries from Haxe IR/AST. hxgenPE aims to be a Haxe -> PE compiler, written entirely in Haxe.
• Add mod support for OpenFL HTML5 apps using Node/Electron pull request by Tamar Curry for Polymod.
• Halfwheat is working on ob.seq git library.
• ceramic 0.8.4 has been released!
• Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.

Closed Source

• Techy Wrinkles shares a preview of retro shump flame stream using Heaps. Plus testing out a spin-dash movement for an enemy.
• Super Cosmic Heist - World 4-6 WIP by Fierce.
• Will Blanton introduces Oxalis, a game that lets you remotely control powerful robots called rangers! Made using HaxeFlixel, using a sprite-stacking technique to achieve fake 3D! Plus over on the Haxe Discord server Will has shared one more video with stacking technique.
• Are you ready to go into space? by Fierce.
• What’s better than bouncing under the hot summer sun? A preview from Andrej’s game Go! Go! PogoGirl, which recently cracked 200 wishlists on Steam! Plus they added a localization system and are working on rotating platforms.
• LastBot by Saul Mastandrea will be released this fall, check out the various bots you can play!
• Samir Sabri shows a “dynamic motor sound simulation with tone.js synthesizer!” using OpenFL & ReactJS.
• Some unused footage for the upcoming Nuclear Blaze trailer by Sébastien Bénard.
• Torcado had been hard workin on a ton of stuff for Heck Deck, like controller/keyboard support.
• Patches Of Adventure by Rob Clemmons Jr got a lovely Title Background uplift .
• Pavel Alexandrov made an animation editor (with HashLink and Dear ImGui) for 5734L3R’s engine. And the editor is gonna be open sourced eventually.
• Chapter 3 of Addlemoth by mauve is around 80% done now.

Some Library Releases

• fen 1.0.0
• vscode 1.60.0
• mc2it_theme 1.0.1
• bootstrap_bundle 1.0.0
• flix 0.0.1
• 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

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

• Add devcontainer to Haxe repo to hopefully lower the barrier of compiler/stdlib contributions pull request.
• Undocumented compiler define flags 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!