Haxe Roundup № 349

Welcome to the latest edition of the Haxe Roundup. Haxe is a high level, strictly typed programming language and cross-compiler.

News from the Community

News and Articles

• Rewrite opening_hours.js in Haxe.
• Fadr for Android, Chrome and Web by Tong.
• Visual Studio Code code completion by Jeff Ward.
• Visual Studio Code debug adapter for HXCPP by Jeff Ward.
• Visual Studio Code & Haxe discussion thread.
• HxScout 0.5.1 release by Jeff Ward.
• Kha Shmup Tutorial Part 4 by Justin Hamilton.
• Kha Shmup Tutorial Part 5 by Justin Hamilton.
• Kha Shmup Tutorial Part 6 by Justin Hamilton.
• Kha Shmup Tutorial Part 7 by Justin Hamilton.
• Inprogress in memory file patch for Haxe by Patrick Le Clec’h.
• JSONP for Haxe by Mark Knol.
• Help crowdsource OpenFL controller mappings by Lars Doucet.
• Cycles Game Engine Announcement by Lubos Lenco.
• HTML5 Custom Elements in Haxe by David Mouton.
• Ludum Dare 34 Haxe Roundup by Skial Bainn.

Game Releases

• Threes game ported to web using luxe engine by Sven Bergström.
• Odebrecht - Work on Height game release of iOS, Android and BlackBerry by Tiago Ling Alexandre.
• Fargerfight Arque game release by Juno Nguyen.
• Snowman: Christmas Challenge by Andrew.

Previews and Demos

• Hacking Haxe - Union Types by Patrick Le Clec’h.
• Hacking Haxe - Pipeline Operator by Patrick Le Clec’h.
• Odebrecht - Work on Height Arcade Machines by Tiago Ling Alexandre.
• Deferred renderer with OpenFL support by Luis.
• Lime 3D renderer by Luis.
• Haxe snow globe by Tecteun.
• Journey of Coins intro animation by Justin C.
• Journey of Coins Demo by Justin C.

Some library releases

• suncalc 1.7.0 by Robin Schneider.
• Box2D linc library by Daniel Uranga.
• hxirc message parser 0.1.1 by Justo Delgado.
• haxe-starling 0.4.2 by Pete Shand.

Updates from the Haxe core

22 commits have been made to Haxe in the last week, with 74 commits closed across the Haxe ecosystem.

• Don’t generate HaxeError unwrapping code when not needed.
• Fixed reading cmdline arguments of line-breaks and empty strings on Linux.

You can start using the latest features by grabbing a nightly build of Haxe.

I hope everyone has a great Christmas and New Years, I’ll resume the roundups sometime in January!