Haxe Roundup 515

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

• FeathersUI for Haxe and OpenFL 1.0.0-alpha.1 has been released!
• Jeremy Morgan has written “Getting Started With Haxe”.
• Defender’s Quest 2 progress report for January by Lars Doucet and a new GIF showing shrapnel projectiles.
• Devlog #13: Creating rainbows and marketing dolphins by fedellen and a preview of the new game.
• Is it possible or advisable to work from an existing DOM with Coconut?
• Pic of the Perth Haxe users group.

Videos & Music

• New vlog from Joshua Stone: Essentially finished with CyberHack gameplay!
• Add a video related to Haxe.

Upcoming Events & Talks

• Osaka Red LLC are co-hosting a HaxeUp with CrashSpace taking place on April 6th in California.
• HaxeUp Hamburg hosted at InnoGames will take place on 7th February 2020. Make sure to sign up!
• EU Haxe Summit 2020 - Let’s meet in Linz.
• Add an upcoming event about Haxe.

Job Offers & Bounties

• Availability for work: Andreas Drewke is available for small to medium sized Flash/OpenFL projects!
• NX Studio (Moscow, Russia) are looking for a Haxe programmer to work on their game called “Throne Rush”.
• Shiro Games are recruiting for different roles to expand their studio and work on upcoming, exciting projects!
• Lars Doucet’s list of various open bounties.
• Add an available job involving Haxe.

Product Releases & Announcements

• OGMO Editor 3.3.0 has been released!
• Tim Hely made a secret game over the last couple of weeks, called Heck House available now to play on itch.io.
• Tim Hely made J-0’s Garage for #globalgamejam2020, available on itch.io, created with HaxeFlixel.
• Robert Alvarez has released his new puzzle platformer Resizer, available now on itch.io, made with Stencyl.
• Dr Laguna has released Archer’s Defense created with HaxeFlixel.
• Dr Laguna has released “The daily life simulator 2018” onto itch.io.
• Version 1.7 of Dicey Dungeons is now live on Steam and itch.io.
• Darkburg will be available on Feb 12th! Here is an Early Access Launch Trailer
• Chrono Pincer: Prelude made for #globalgamejam2020 with HaxeFlixel.

Code Examples

• '$value' (or "" + value) is usually faster than Std.string(value) for numeric types. See dev comments.
• Have an example you want to add? Consider contributing to the code.haxe.org cookbook.

Previews & Demos

Open Source

• Lubos Lenco has released 2020.2 versions of Armory3D git and Iron git!
• Tong has updated Haxe type definitions for Three.js r113 and Electron 8.0.0.
• vscode-haxe-blocks git - An extension to display function block decorations in Haxe code.
• kbuf git - Signed and Unsigned Integer Buffer implementation in Haxe by 'Damilare Darmie Akinlaja.
• vscode-haxe-jsx git - Haxe JSX syntax highlighting for Visual Studio Code.
• New creative coding arts by Matthijs Kamstra:
  • 60 seconds that you are never going to get back!
  • 45 seconds you are never going to get back!
  • And his creative coding calendar.

Closed Source

• Jeff Ward previews WootMath’s latest Math manipulatives built with CSS and Haxe.
• Michael Bickel is coding, designing, building, testing and making his 3D printer suffer for his autonomous mid sized Haxe powered drones.
• Juriën Meerlo has got basic aabb physics working in his engine with his quadtree.
• Hosek-Wilkie sky model with PBR rendering in Kha by Blackgoku36.
• Luyren previews “orbitals” they’ve been working on, which is based on the barrier-type weapons in classic megaman, made with Stencyl.
• Spirkop previews the current status of “Electric City Manager 2” made with Phaser and Haxe.
• Tom Brinton previews the work in progress home screen UI for Poor Thief made with Stencyl.
• take a look… its in a book… from Heck Deck by torcado.
• New short video with a list of improvements made by Alex Johansson.
• Small GIF from Haxe discord, showing WIP game by Ashedragon made with HaxeFlixel.
• A couple of quick videos from WIP puzzle game by Robert Alvarez:
  • Basic enemies and pickups.
  • Three pickup types.

Some Library Releases

• DomWires 1.0.0-alpha.9
• openflCamera 1.0.6
• notifier 1.1.17
• flump-starling 1.0.8
• haxe-phaser3 3.22.1
• electron 8.0.0
• haxeui-core 1.0.21
• astar 0.2.0
• starling-text-display 0.7.0
• hxWidgets 1.5.1
• haxeui-openfl 1.0.6
• haxeui-kha 1.0.4
• haxeui-hxwidgets 1.0.7
• haxeui-html5 1.0.5
• feathersui 1.0.0-alpha.1
• fuse 0.0.57
• signals 1.3.0
• colyseus 0.12.1
• geom 0.0.3-alpha
• htmlHelper 0.0.2-alpha
• Checkout the most recent library releases on HaxeLib.

Framework Updates

• [Draft] Support for scoped Lime projects pull request.

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

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

• [Draft] Cross-target exception handling pull request
• SSL support for the Eval target has been merged into development.

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!