Haxe Roundup 565

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

• Haxe 4.2.0 has been released!
  • With lots of attention on Hacker News.
• Vshaxe 2.22.0 has been released.
• Pecan coroutines announcement.

  • pecan is a macro-based library for Haxe that lets you write coroutines, which are functions that can suspend their execution at any point.

• PogoGirl Devlog #12: Power Up! by Andrej.

Videos & Music

• ArmorPaint. News for February 4, 2021 by Alexander Kiryanov.
• FierceTheBandit has released Super Cosmic Land’s OST, available on Newgrounds.
• Rogue of Vallas Devlog 12: AI Redesign - Part 1 video by Merrak.
• EP3. How to quickly setup HaxeFlixel from scratch - Shader course video by Richard Oliver Bray.
• Add a video related to Haxe.

Upcoming Events & Talks

• Add an upcoming event about Haxe.

Jobs, Bounties

• Add an available job involving Haxe.

Looking for work

• Javid Jafari is looking for a job.
• Joshua Granick is looking for paid work.
• Justin Mills is looking for a fulltime job. Justin is an ex Flash/AIR/Away3D/Papervision3D expert who’s been using Haxe for 10 years, a good lateral thinker & loves visual stuff, maths and capable at fine art.
• Andreas Drewke is looking for a part time job.
• Torcado is looking for a publisher/indie fund to help him fund the rest of the development for Heck Deck. He would love to know any recommendations you may have.

Job listings

• Shiro Games are still looking for people to join their team of passionate developers in Bordeaux to work on a new unannounced project.
• Bloognoo is looking for a Haxe developer to help them save live venues.
• The team behind Forge of Empires at InnoGames is looking for a Haxe developer, feel free to contact Dan Korostelev in case of any questions! More info can be found at the company’s website.
• BeeInventor Limited are hiring for a Haxe fullstack developer to join them in Taipei.
• Solar Powered Games are looking for a Haxe/OpenFL game developer to join them, check out the community posting for more detail.

Bounties

• Squidly has opened up a bounties page for HaxeFlixel features.
• Lars Doucet’s list of various open bounties.

Product Releases & Announcements

• Michael Miriti has made a demake of UnRailed! by Indoor Astronaut for #nokiajam, available on itch.io, made with Heaps.
• Heck House and Spooksville, USA by Axol Studio now have playable Mac and Linux versions.
• Axol Studio has also introduced their 2nd Monthly Mini-Game: The Pawspector! Explore a rugged & dangerous valley to collect gold - but be careful! This valley carries a deadly curse!

Code Examples

• Packaging NPM dependencies into a JS/Haxe Application by Tom Byrne.
• Have an example you want to add? Consider contributing to the code.haxe.org cookbook.

Previews & Demos

Open Source

Community Previews

• Gepatto previews FlxTeroids running on a Raspberry Pi 4 using HaxeFlixel and shows another video of HaxeFlixel Pong on the Pi 4 with a custom USB rotary Encoder. Based on HaxeFlixel Crash Course tutorial by Andrej.
• Lubos Lenco is working on procedural edge wear materials for ArmorPaint.

Releases

• littleBigInt 0.1.3 has been released.

Git Repos

• [genes] Rough support of multiple types in dynamic import merged.
• [armory3d] Add support for shadow map atlasing pull request.
• Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.

Closed Source

• Syo has transferred the mechanics from the old prototype to the Jitter Sandbox game, now that everything works exactly as it should, made with Heaps.
• Jano Games is starting work on the game simulator for One Season Wonder, made with Stencyl, but they’ve made it harder to score now…
• Fresh Juice previews prison break: stealth mode in Sharpeye, a pixel art game made with Stencyl.
• Snsvrno previews a prototype game, which has been a challenge to code due to complex curves. But they have simple queuing and multiple lanes working, all made with Heaps.
• Modern-looking procgen mansion by Oleg Dolya. 🏠
• RobClemmonsJr got some new plant shop pixel art for Moon plants of horror.
• Upcoming new arena setup in Double Turn by Kenny Goff.
• Torcado is working on Heck Deck full time now. The game will be published by Plug In Digital.
• Andretchen from Haxe Discord server has made Crush course for Weekly Game Jam 186 using using Haxe, Heaps and deepnightlibs.
• NorDev has shared some progress on node based fluid solver:
  • Finally have shaders running!
  • A terrible quality video of the software working with a shader and mouse input.
• Rosa Hernández has shared some photos and GIFs of Hvem Spiser Hvem? by ʇ0mmy:
  • Level 1: Find out what the cod eats.
  • Level 2: Now find out what the goby fish eats…
  • Level 3: Finally find out what copepods eat…
  • A scoreboard at the end.
  • Hvem Spiser Hvem? is a part of a bigger installation showcasing research in the Oslo fiord by the Frisk Oslofjord project.

Some Library Releases

• json2object 3.9.0
• littleBigInt 0.1.3
• genes 0.3.1
• hxcpp 4.2.1
• hxcs 4.2.0
• hxjava 4.2.0
• hxasync 0.3.6
• electron 11.2.3
• avenyrhEngine 0.1.0
• css-types 0.2.4
• Check out the most recent library releases on HaxeLib.

People & Projects to support

• Pavel Alexandrov is primarily contributing to the Heaps engine and is the creator of format-tiled library.
• Ian Harrigan is working on primarily HaxeUI, as well as hxArduino & hxWebSockets.
• Kaelan Evans is working on HxDoom, a Haxe adaption of Doom.
• Richard Oliver Bray is teaching people the things he’s learnt, like React, Typescript and Haxe.
• 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.
• 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 Enum abstract instances proposal.
• Add Null coalescing operator proposal.
• Add local static proposal.
• Allow enums to opt-out of publishing their constructors in the implicit global scope proposal.
• Add destructive assignments proposal.
• Add Matcher: setting variables and guard as expression in a pattern proposal.
• Add Single pattern check proposal.
• Add Shorthand nullable-type syntax 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 Default values for enum parameters.
• Do you have an idea to improve Haxe? Consider creating a proposal.

Core Changes

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

• @:using not working as intended when handling Class<> and Enum<> issue.
• Suggestion: cpp Int64 should not implicitly cast to Int32 discussion.
• [jvm] Request for implementation of JSR-45 Source Maps to allow for debugging with IDEs and JDB feature request.
• [analyzer] String -> ConstCharStar generates invalid code issue.