Haxe Roundup 521

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

• This isn’t goodbye, but I will see you around by Lewis Lepton. Let’s all wish him luck with his future projects!
• Osaka Red LLC are cancelling this years HaxeUp due to Covid-19.
• Michael Bickel presents his new startup: An autonomous toilet paper delivery service called FlyWipe. 🛸🧻
• Renegade Racing by Paul Gene Thompson was “Game Of The Day” in 133 countries on iOS. And it reached number 1 sports game in 31 countries on iPhone and 44 countries on iPad!
• Vulkan has a ray tracing acceleration API now, and Lubos Lenco might throw some related pull-requests at Kha. Plus soon there will be accelerated ray-tracing in ArmorPaint.
• Dicey Dungeons is coming to Nintendo Switch. Thanks to Ruari O’Sullivan, who joined Dicey Dungeons team and helped to port the game! Check out the game’s Nintendo store page.

Videos & Music

• Add a video related to Haxe.

Upcoming Events & Talks

• Stencyl Jam #19! March 27th - April 6th. You can sign up at Stencyl website.
• EU Haxe Summit 2020 - Let’s meet in Linz.
• Add an upcoming event about Haxe.

Job Offers & Bounties

• New bounty by Kaleido Games: Bounty to make OpenFL work with (FNA/UWP).
• 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

• Shellrider has released “A lot of Apples”, a game made with HaxeFlixel, for the quarantine jam available from itch.io.
• Nick Grebenshikov has released Domino Solitaire, a little game created with OpenFL and JiveUI for iOS and Android.
• You can pre-register for Little Square Things by Gregory Sreed on the Google Play store.
• Super MineSweeper II TURBO is made with love and HaxeFlixel as a test from zero to market by filipp8 from Haxe Discord server.
• wBrain - Tools for Teams - Experimental tools for agile and remote teams, made with Haxe and NodeJS. via Felipe Peternella.

Code Examples

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

Previews & Demos

Open Source

• Nanjizal has created a Covid19 cases map for the UK.
• Tong has released hlserialport git.

Closed Source

• The idea from a couple of weeks back is taking shape by Luyren.
• What if Tetris pieces had souls? Havana24 is working on something new…
• This week Ben Simms wanted to make everything thing a bit more lively in Star Burst.
• Josh’s game, Scrapworks which is made with HaxeFlixel, now has menus which are now fully functional!
• These doors open only when a certain number of blocks are connected. From WIP Stencyl game by Robert Alvarez.
• Otherones from the Haxe Discord serves has made a HaxeFlixel game called Sheep Savior for their course on game design.
• Andrej is Making a Pogo Platformer. Here are some shiny gems that you can collect in the game.
• Playing around with a mechanic in Heck Deck that automatically slows time when you get close to a lethal card.
• PixelPajamaStudios has additional footage of Sonar Smash Beta, a game made with Stencyl, featuring great usage of the Bubble Shield, plus footage where the dolphin protagonist successfully navigates Wave 69 using Triple Shot.
• Alex Johansson has written a big write-up for Morse on tigsource, a strategy morse code game, made with Stencyl.
• Alex Johansson has been working on PARcentage, made with Stencyl, he’s:
  • added a fast forward button.
  • added a staggered spawn animation.
  • and bunch of progress made.
• A couple posts by Oleg Dolya:
  • Book Hunter and plans for the rest of March.
  • Towers in Procgen Mansion.

Some Library Releases

• pony 1.2.5
• mtasa-types 0.0.2
• DomWires 1.0.0-alpha.11
• extype 2.1.0
• AnonStruct 0.2.0
• banker 0.1.1
• ripper 0.2.1
• sneaker 0.6.0
• bind 0.4.5
• Checkout the most recent library releases on HaxeLib.

Framework Updates

• None this week.

People & Projects to support

• Alexander Gordeyko is developing Pony, a Haxe open-cross-library.
• 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 Default implementations in interfaces proposal.
• 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

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

• Min/Max number limits pull request.
• Boolean binop reconstruction vs return issue.
• Add haxe.Constraints.NotVoid merged.
• Do not generate redundant final return for return voidExpr closed.
• Cross-target exception handling merged!
• Remove redundant continue closed.