Haxe Roundup 506

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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

• An Haxe review focusing on Haxe 4.0.0 on the Toptal Engineering Blog written by Kevin Bloch.
• Haxe was used in the latest Pokémon Sword and Shield games. Terurou has collected more details about it, written in Japanese (but Google autotranslate does its job).
• Richard Oliver Bray has written about building a native Windows project in HaxeFlixel/OpenFL.
• Gifted class teaching their teacher how to play the video games they created with Stencyl!
• Will Blanton has released the third version v3.1 of the OGMO Editor, which is made with Haxe and available from itch.io. Also check out the release article by GameFromScratch.
• François Barbut has published his Haxe and PHP “Haxe 4, le Typescript de PHP ?” slides.
• An update to the Haxe Linux packages: Most distributions have 4.0.2 now. ppa:haxe/releases has also been updated. There is still ppa:haxe/haxe3.4 if you don’t want to upgrade yet. Thanks to Andy Li for the hard work!
• The first devlog of Antlers, the multiplayer online ARPG by Caribou has been published.
• Collecting Power - Defender’s Quest 2 Progress: November 2019 by Lars Doucet.
• 1: Launch Day? - a blog post by Terry Cavanagh from which you learn about Dicey Dungeon’s launch, future plans, and the planned Switch and Mobile ports!
• Devlog #3: Marketing Victories by fedellen.
• Feathers UI Devlog: Collection filtering/sorting, TabBar, Callout, ComboBox and layouts with percent sizing.
• Hatching in 1PDG by Oleg Dolya.

In case you missed it

• Haxe 4.0.2 has been released!
• [HXCPP/Linux] Tip: Replace ld linker with lld to improve compilation times.
• Ian Harriagan has updating the “HaxeLib helper” to a full blown HaxeLib manager.
• Writing a platformer game using HaxeFlixel Devlog Part 06: Level Transition & Parallax Background by Mayur Patil.
• New post from Hello Lightbulb: Husband and Wife Dev Team. And their game “Scales: A Pangolin Story” now has a demo.
• MrTambourineSLO has finished implementing ledge grabbing in his platformer game and they’ve written a recap about it.
• Check out Sonar Smash Devlog 02: “Hard Code the Things” article by fedellen.
• The AS3 target been removed. Good night sweet prince.
• Continued Twitter MEGA-thread about Chess themed SHMUP prototype by Alex Johansson with new videos and mockups included.

Videos & Music

• 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

• Poptropica are in need of a developer to Integrate GAF into OpenFL.
• New job offer from Persona Game Studio (Novosibirsk, Russia) who are looking for a Haxe game developer.
• Shiro Games is recruiting for different roles to expand their studio and work on upcoming, exciting projects!
• Mino Games (Montreal, Canada) is hiring Haxe developers to join their small group of passionate engineers and artists. :ca:
• 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

• Double Kick Heroes is coming to Xbox Games Pass!
• Open sourced: Floyds Puzzle is a shape match puzzle game for kids available on Google Play.
• Can you make a jump and run in one hour? Yes you can! Check out Element Hunter, a #1hgj indie game by Dr. Laguna.
• Renegade Racing by Paul Gene Thompson is now live on the App Store and Google Play. via Not Doppler.

In case you missed it

• Sonar Smash has launched their games website.

Code Examples

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

Previews & Demos

Open Source

• heaps-ios git is looking for a new maintainer.
• Matthijs Kamstra continues his creative coding with Pattern [WIP] and a creative coding pattern made for an all over print which is getting printed onto a jacket.
• OGMO Editor 3 HaxeFlixel integration using zerolib-flixel by Will Blanton.
• And the Ogmo Editor also needs your help:
  • Add .ogmo file association.
  • Setup Native Application Menu.
  • Add in auto updating builds.
• New repos by David Klein:
  • kha-coconut.ui-template git which shows Kha, HaxeUI and coconut.ui being used together.
  • haxe-ecs-benchmarks git which compares only ecx and exp-ecs at the moment.

Closed Source

• A lot of crabs in Leapin Lads by Cory Martin.
• Fedellen has previewed a little update and polish on the Sonar Smash title screen and has been toying around with the idea for tutorials.
• More drone swarm experiments, this time its dynamic formation with built-in collision avoidance using Haxe by Michael Bickel.
• From the Haxe Discord: Thanks, HaxeFlixel particles by arnulfo.
• A little improvement on the “Level Select” menu of “Treasure Measure”.
• Alex Johansson has released some preview video of the bishop in action in his latest game being made with Stencyl.
• Exploring a ‘cabinet of curiosities’ in ArachnoPunk by Benny Heller.
• A couple of new GIFs from Croaking Hill by 1Speed studio:
  • Playing around with particles.
  • Moar particles!
• Some of the latest previews from Caribou’s Antlers, made in Heaps:
  • Wave system.
  • Added a basic health bar.
• A few GIFs from “Scales: A Pangolin Story” by Hello LightBulb:
  • New pangolin animation.
  • Hand crafted animation for our mother pangolin.
  • A basic level selection screen.
• A few of the latest updates from Ben Simms [WIP] game:
  • Tick, tick, boooom! Going down the fireworks & space theme.
  • A new ‘puzzle’ mode.
  • Journey, unlock and rating system.
  • Bowie just loves to eat the stars!

Some Library Releases

• webgl_fluid_simulation 1.0.1
• notifier 1.1.9
• p2p 0.1.24
• signals 1.2.6
• haxeui-core 1.0.7
• Nice 3.3.1
• hxnodejs-sqlite3 0.1.1
• fuse 0.0.44
• sbComponents 0.0.5
• haxeui-kha 1.0.3
• hxWidgets 1.3.0
• DomWires 1.0.0-alpha.6
• transition 1.0.6
• utils 1.0.7
• hxPhidgetRfid 0.3.0
• Rice2D 2019.11.17
• bindx2 2.7.0
• tink_await 0.6.0
• heapsOgmo 0.0.11
• Checkout the most recent library releases on HaxeLib.

Framework Updates

In case you missed it

• [peg] Update for WordPress code merged.

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

• Hint-conditional for compilation improvements 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.

• StringTools.endsWith Unicode issue on Haxe v4 HXCPP target issue.

In case you missed it

• Tail recursion elimination merged.
• Implement texpr based display support merged.
• [analyzer] Over optimisation of not-really constant locals fixed.
• [parser] Eval empty flag value as true 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!