Haxe Roundup № 368

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

• A rewrite of the PHP compiler target is being actively worked on, help shape its future!
• The HaxeFlixel fundraiser is nearly at $7K, currently 221% of its total, with Kongregate buying a gold sponsorship and getting extra goodies added!
• Dox, the Haxe documentation lib, has been updated!
• Lewis Lepton, the Kha tutorial series author, has outlined his future plans on Patreon.
• DC/AC virtual labs full wave rectifier walk through.
• The linc_steam_api library gets a progress update.
• Harfang 1.0.0, a Haxe web framework, has been published.
• A hidden Haxe compiler ability.

Events

• Add an upcoming event about Haxe.

Recent Talks

• Slides from Eugenes recent RedGameDev Haxe talk.

Job Offers & Bounties

• London based Haxe developer needed to work on social games.
• Sydney Freelancer for generative art installation.
• Gamesys London Job.
• Haxe opportunity in London.
• Add an available job involving Haxe.

Video Tutorials

• Kha tutorial EP41 - Project Sound
• Kha tutorial EP42 - Install Kha2d
• Kha tutorial EP43 - Kha2d Animation

Code Snippets

• Haxe macro to get the expected identifier as a value.
• Parametrized abstract externs.
• Handle JavaScript events with Haxe 3.3.0 abstracts.
• Haxe macro to fetch abstract @:enum values.
• Functional threading with macros.

App & Game releases

• Northgard trailer.
• Anticolonias, a real-time strategy entry for Mini Ludum Dare #69 compiled to HTML5 and Flash, made with HaxeFlixel.

IDE updates

• Haxe import library for Emacs called Emacs Haxe Imports.

Devlog updates

• General updates and new betas (now including Linux builds) resume at HaxeFlixel-based Willy and Mathilda’s Houseboat Adventure: The Game devlog.
• A workaround for scaled pixel-perfect collision checks in the technical devlog for Willy and Mathilda’s Houseboat Adventure.

Previews, Demos & Snippets

• Hitting rock bottom in Willy and Mathilda’s Houseboat Adventure: The Game.
• Listview component has been implemented in wxWidgets and will be coming soon to HaxeUI!
• Spaceship decks, hallways and lifts all auto generated.
• Sakura has enemies.
• Kha stereo rendering.

Some library releases

• xt3d git
• odd git
• waud 0.7.0
• openfl-atlas 1.0.0
• rexit 1.0.5
• harfang 1.0.0
• parsihx 0.2.0
• ecx 0.0.3

Updates from the Haxe core

New Proposals

• Have an idea to improve Haxe, create a proposal.

Core Changes

264 commits have been made to Haxe compiler in the last couple of weeks.

• A brand new PHP generator is being worked on in a separate repo.
• as3hx is still seeing rapid improvements.
• The Haxe cookbook has a wish list of wanted articles to be contributed by the community.
• Who will help implement IPV6 support?
• Proper UTF-8 code point encoding possibly coming to the compiler.
• Improved Windows compiler build support and instructions.

You can start using the latest features by grabbing a nightly build of Haxe.

Take it easy everyone and have a good week!