Haxe Roundup 498

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

• Diving Bell (which is made with Haxe) by Lars Doucet is now live on Steam Labs!
• Medieval Fantasy City Generator v0.7.2 has been release by Oleg Dolya. Check out a couple of screenshots experimenting with contour lines.
• Dead Cells has sold 2.4m units across all platforms; Switch sales have been described as “completely ridiculous”.
• Dead Cells from Motion Twin and Playdigious for iOS has been updated to fully support the latest features of iOS v13.
• Check out Issue #337 of Edge magazine if you want to learn more about how Dead Cells was made.
• Solid Aether has been exhibited at the Tokyo Game Show 2019! And a mobile version of the game is in the works!

Videos & Music

• Quick video from WIP 3D racing game by Ed Ryzhov.
• Add a video related to Haxe.

Upcoming Events & Talks

• There will be a small HaxeUp in Seattle next week on October 4th!
• Add an upcoming event about Haxe.

Job Offers & Bounties

• New job offer from Persona Game Studio (Novosibirsk, Russia) who are looking for a Haxe game developer.
• Shiro Games is recruiting for different roles to expand their studio and work on upcoming, exciting projects!
• Mino Games (Montreal, Canada) is hiring Haxe developers to join their small group of passionate engineers and artists.
• Tamar Curry has opened $50 bug bounty for improving TextField performance in OpenFL. Here is also related issue in the OpenFL repo.
• A new job offer involving Haxe in Copenhagen at Laerdal Copenhagen.
• Bounty (up to 250 US$) for finishing the implementation UWP (WINRT) using ANGLE (in Lime).
• Lars Doucet’s list of various open bounties.
• Add an available job involving Haxe.

Product Releases

• Coming soon: the SUSAN SUPPORTER PACK on Steam, October 14th. Including CHEAP GOLF OST + Art, Humor, Music, Videos & More Art.
• WAHLRENNEN is a small browser game by Rat King. It was commissioned by the Centre for Political Education of Thuringia. And it’s made with Heaps.
• Northgard is out NOW on the Nintendo Switch!

Code Examples

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

Previews & Demos

Open Source

• Check out Stackr by Austin East, which is also open sourced! Its a tool for previewing models using the method commonly known as “Sprite Stacking”.
• Source code for Aurel Bily’s Alakajam! 7 entry.

Closed Source

• Ideal transformer simulation by Samir Sabri.
• The Licker from Renaine attacks with its quick tongue! So watch your step!
• Work in Progress GIF from “It’s About The Journey” game by MortMort, which is made with Stencyl.
• For Alex Johansson’s sisters wedding, he and Katy Marshal made a cabinet containing a dessert themed game featuring the pair of them!
• A couple of srceenshots from an application called OpenLife by PXshadow: Part one and two. All done in OpenFL using haxe.zip, Lime, CURL and a ton of amazing functionality thanks to Lime and OpenFL.
• SUPER Cute Alien has added bots so you can play multiplayer arenas now.

Some Library Releases

• away3d 5.0.9
• svg 1.1.3
• utils 1.0.4
• info 1.0.8
• nova 0.4.2
• nice 3.0.1
• test-adapter 1.2.5
• utest 1.10.1
• condition 2.0.5
• vscode-debugadapter 1.37.0
• openfl-spine 1.5.2
• location 1.1.2
• signals 1.2.5
• transition 1.0.4
• notifier 1.1.1
• keyboard 1.0.7
• openflFilesystem 1.0.3
• robotlegs 1.4.7
• zame-particles 1.2.0
• deepnightLibs 0.0.8
• html2Canvas-extern 0.1.0
• slick 0.2.0
• miniMasonry 0.2.0
• jStream 0.2.0
• js-firebase 0.2.0
• youtubeIFramePlayer 0.2.0
• jsPDF 0.2.0
• js-object 0.0.7
• inquirer 0.2.0
• haxe-doctest 2.0.1
• hxp 1.1.4
• tink_color 1.0.0
• Checkout the most recent library releases on HaxeLib.

Framework Updates

• [hxgenjs] ES6 super call ordering fixed.

People & Projects to support

• 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.
• Lewis Lepton is creating tutorials, code and videos.
• 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

• Carry comments through to target language proposal.
• Replace null access modifier with this 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 Type parameter variance for Enums.
• Add Default values for enum parameters.
• Do you have an idea to improve Haxe? Consider creating a proposal.

Core Changes

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

• Assertion failed on Abstract @:to fixed.
• [cpp/hl] Slow performance of trace command issue.
• [neko] (asys) Add libuv wrappers pull request.
• [lua] Fix signed bitwise ops merged.
• Better inlining of for loops with anonymous iterators pull request.

You can get started using the latest features by downloading a nightly build of Haxe.

Take it easy everyone and have a good week!