Haxe Roundup 516

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

• Sébastien Bénard has left Motion Twin to become a full time indie game dev!
• Very comprehensive documentation for the ammer library, which brings native libraries to Haxe, written by Aurel Bily.
• Vadim Dyachenko has made a Haxe version of his “tiny guide to writing interpreters”. With the source code available at BitBucket.
• Haxelibrarian is a bash script to list the description of Haxelib libraries.
• City Viewer aka Toy Town 2 by Oleg Dolya, plus gable roofs.
• Axol Studios have demoed some games at First Friday event at The Saint Louis Science Centre.
• Flash in 2020 and beyond OpenFL article by Joshua Granick.
• Josefiene Pertosa and Haxe.ru have shared pics from the latest Hamburg HaxeUp meetup.
  • We’re on!
  • InnoGames goals for their conversion to Haxe.
  • Haxe.ru live mega Twitter thread.
  • InnoGames share a couple of pics from the HaxeUp event.
  • YouTube playlist of the HaxeUp are available.
  • This is how you HaxeUp! by Dan Korostelev.
  • Couple of photos from InnoGames.

Videos & Music

• Official Animated Trailer for Dead Cells: The Bad Seed DLC which is already out across PC & consoles!
• 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.
• 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

• Darksburg by Shiro Games is on Steam Early Access now with a 10%launch discount!

Code Examples

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

Previews & Demos

Open Source

• HaxeShare patch notes.
• Anders Nissen is making a small and pleasant programming language written in Haxe.
• OpenFL3D by Will Blanton is a fake-3D experiment made with OpenFL.
• Matthijs Kamstra:
  • previews WebGL support coming to his creative coding library.
  • updates Text support in his creative coding library, targeting both SVG and canvas.
  • continues to update his creative coding library, slowing converting SVG to canvas.

Closed Source

• Jeff Ward previews a new pane for the classroom quiz app he’s work on which allows teachers to see students work in real time.
• WootMath’s latest math manipulatives allow students to explore probability.
• Luyren has finished work on semi-solid slopes, inspired by fedellen and his unicorn game and has shares previews behind the scenes of Pathfinder, made with Stencyl.
• Juriën Meerlo is working on rendering only the tiles that visible to the camera, made with Kha and zoomed out physics debug view of his over-engineered pong game.
• Lewis Lepton is working on creating a library that’s heavily inspired by openFrameworks, but built on Kha. Check out his Twitter thread for further details.
• Saul Mastandrea shares a preview of Last Bot, an arcade shooter he is working on.
• Ben Simms shares some in-progress puzzles, which are challenging but also fair and has updated the GUI and added ultra wide puzzles to Star Burst Game, made with Stencyl.
• Fedellen has imported more pixel art assets into his game and is polishing and playing around with the movement of those rainbow rails. 🌈 Made with Stencyl.
• Mauve is working on turn based puzzle game and writes it in Haxe and OpenFL.
• Already banged out the next enemy…! by torcado
• It’s alive! by Josu Igoa. PS Move API used in Haxe with ammer lib!
• From Haxe discord:
  • Basic character movement with y sorting by RandomGuy made with Heaps.
  • Fallen hero GIF from WIP Croaking Hill game by 1speed studio.

Some Library Releases

• deepnightLibs 0.0.31
• react-color 0.1.0
• react-lazyload 0.1.0
• genes 0.0.0
• zerolib 0.7.0
• set 0.1.0
• haxeshare 1.0.1
• hxtf 2.0.0
• flixel-addons 2.8.0
• vscode-debugadapter 1.38.0
• vscode 1.42.0
• astar 0.2.1
• Checkout the most recent library releases on HaxeLib.

Framework Updates

• None this week.

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

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

• Something like haxeshim but official discussion.
• Rethinking display modes discussion.
• Properly support diagnostics with texpr-display merged.

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!