Haxe Roundup 509

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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

• More Editor – An Icy Night In Snowman’s Land by Jacob White.
• Motion Twin are looking for volunteers for Dead Cells Bad Seed DLC private alpha.
• Ogmo Editor 3.2.1 has been released!

In case you missed it

• Haxe 4.0.3 has been released!
• Haxe-checkstyle 2.6.0 has been released!
• CrossCode: Upcoming Updates, DLC and Console Versions.
• Devlog #5: Bug Hunting by fedellen.

Videos & Music

• Joshua Stone shares more details about his upcoming game “CyberHack” in his latest devlog vid.
• Add a video related to Haxe.

Upcoming Events & Talks

• EU Haxe Summit 2020 - Let’s meet in Linz.
• The next HaxeUp probably will be around next February at InnoGames office!
• Add an upcoming event about Haxe.

Job Offers & Bounties

• Cagette.net are looking for a Haxe developer to join them!
• Poptropica are in need of a developer to Integrate GAF into OpenFL.
• Shiro Games is recruiting for different roles to expand their studio and work on upcoming, exciting projects!
• Tamar Curry has opened $50 bug bounty for improving TextField performance in OpenFL. Here is also related issue in the OpenFL repo.
• Bounty (up to 250 US$) 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 & Announcements

• Nothing new this week.

In case you missed it

• Lubos Lenco has released 2019.12 updates for Armory3D and ArmorPaint.
• Block Toggle, a new puzzle platformer from Robert Alvarez, made with Stencyl, has been published on itch.io and Newgrounds.
• Medieval Fantasy City Generator update 0.7.3 by Oleg Dolya.
• “NGN: Neo Gaijin Ninjō” is a Turn Based Card RPG in a futuristic cyberpunk world and it’s being made in Stencyl.
• Spirkop Games announced Electric City Manager 2. It is being made with Haxe and Phaser. They usually stream a development session every Wednesday between 3PM and 5PM at twitch.tv. Check out this weeks stream recording.
• The Darksburg Closed Beta has begun!
• The Bad Seed DLC is the next major content addition to Dead Cells. Coming Q1 2020 on PC & consoles.

Code Examples

• Display Haxe traces within a <div> snippet by Nanjizal.
• Have an example you want to add? Consider contributing to the code.haxe.org cookbook.

Previews & Demos

Open Source

• Andy Li has updated the HaxeCI example project to demonstrate how to use Haxe with TravisCI Windows builds.
• Creative coding pattern for an all over jacket print by Matthijs Kamstra.
• The first alpha milestone of Feathers UI for Haxe & OpenFL by Josh Tynjala is right around the corner!
• [WIP] Haxe build of Doom by Kaelan Evans runs in the PS4 web browser. He has also made HxDoom repository public.
• Day 9 of #AdventOfCode by Daniel Kurdoghlian, in which each day he uses different language, this time Haxe.
• Nanjizal’s experiment with using abstracts over flat arrays for WebGL drawing. And check out the source code over on GitHub.
• Hxspine by Dan Korostelev is a generic Spine run-time for Haxe.
• Json2typedef by Vadim Dyachenko is a small tool that takes samples of JSON and generates Haxe typedef code for them. Try out the demo web version.
• Nixlixhx by Danny Wilson has created a package manager written in Nix.
• Haxe manager by Rudy Ges has created a tool to easily download and switch Haxe versions.

Closed Source

• The community Beta of Sonar Smash will begin within a few days!
• Hello Lightbulb have shared an early build of their game over on Discord.
• Blackgoku36 has shared a sneak peak video of Paddy Editor, a 2D editor for game engines written in Haxe and Kha. And you will be able to bring your own glue for visual scripting.
• Fedellen previews a revamped pre-game selection screen in Sonar Smash.
• Michael Bickel has added some simple data driven logic using behaviour trees to his drones.
• Let him who is without sin cast the first stone by MrTambourineSLO.
• Robert Alvarez has started working on a new puzzle game about pushing blocks and making bridges.
• Before and after colour-blind friendly UI design of “Treasure Measure” by 7th Variety.
• Debug info in ExaStar which is being made in Stencyl.
• The main menu of Jitter sandbox by Syo.
• New screenshots from [WIP] Croaking Hill game by 1speed:
  • Mansion dungeon.
  • We need more cold lights for spooky atmosphere.
• A couple of Defender’s Quest 2 Twitter progress reports by Lars Doucet:
  • Revised the Collector’s ultimate attack.
  • Now it sets things on fire, because why not.

Some Library Releases

• react-next 1.119.0
• cacher 1.0.2
• haxeui-openfl 1.0.2
• haxeui-corre 1.0.12
• electron 7.1.4
• echo 1.3.0
• material-ui 4.0.3
• notifier 1.1.14
• fuse 0.0.48
• signals 1.2.7
• nova 0.4.10
• callfunc 0.5.0
• hxWebSockets 1.3.3
• hxWidgets 1.4.0
• haxeui-hxwidgets 1.0.5
• Checkout the most recent library releases on HaxeLib.

Framework Updates

• [WIP] Haxelib CLI pull request for Heaps.io by Pavel Alexandrov.

People & Projects to support

• 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.
• 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

• Add Abstract classes proposal.
• Add ReadOnlyArray optimisation proposal.
• Carry comments through to target language 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.

• Soft Deprecation of Std.is merged.
• override should not be allowed on static methods issue.

In case you missed it

• Fixed size Array map idea.
• [js] Use Abstract’s own type path for generating its implementation class merged.
• [WIP] SSL support for eval target pull request.
• [asys] Make haxe.Error generic merged into [feature/asys].
• [asys] Change NoData internal type pull request.

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 and have a good week!