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
- Apache Cordova externs announcement.
- HaxeFlixel
4.2.0is now available to all!.
- OpenFL Custom Shaders land in
4.3.0!. - A new port of Starling has been released to HaxeLib, supported by OpenFL.
- OpenFL
4.3.1has been released with a Starling HTML5 demo.
- Don’t Crawl’s, available on Steam, network code was written in Haxe and compiled to GML using a custom generator.
- Interactive Dialogue Part 3.
- HaxePunk now has its own Gitter channel.
- An introduction guide to using HaxeFlixel with Visual Studio Code.
- HXCPP CFFI and multi threading discussion.
Events
- Nicolas Cannasse will be releasing the newest Haxe target,
HL, at Gamesys London, October 20th. - David Mouton will be speaking at Capitole du Libre about Haxe in his talk Beyond JavaScript this November 19th & 20th.
- François Barbut will be speaking at Capitole du Libre about Haxe in his talk Discover Haxe, the developers Grail this November 19th & 20th.
- A recently created group, the Haxe Bavarian Meetup are looking for members to join before their first event.
- Add an upcoming event about Haxe.
Job Offers & Bounties
- Jefferson Wolfe are looking for a Haxe Developer in London.
- Vretta Inc are looking for Haxe & OpenFL developers to join their Interaction Developer team in Toronto.
- Etoiles are looking for a Haxe developer to work with them on their children apps.
- Katya Lusto is recruiting for Playtika who are looking for a Haxe developer to join their team in Minsk, Belarus.
- Add an available job involving Haxe.
Podcasts
- Dan and Slava talk about Haxe, its use cases, its pros & cons and more.
Text Tutorials
- Getting started with Haxe macros.
- Making cool stuff with Haxe macros.
- Working with CPPIA tutorial series.
Video Tutorials
- Kha tutorial - EP47 - Button States.
- Kha tutorial - EP48 - Collision Rectangle.
- Kha tutorial - EP49 - Camera.
App & Game releases
- 3D lime space sim for GBJAM Subsector available on
itch.io.
Previews, Demos & Snippets
- Grease Pencil animation demo rendered with Armory, powered by Kha.
Some library releases
- Apache Cordova
git - http_socket
0.0.1 - ithril
1.3.0 - asys
0.2.0 - checkstyle
2.1.6 - monsoon
0.3.2 - tink_state
0.0.0 - tink_macro
0.11.0 - tink_core
1.3.0 - tink_http
0.5.0 - openfl-ios-networkings
git - extension-googleplayservices-basement
1.1.0 - swf
2.3.0 - svg
1.1.1 - openfl
4.3.1 - lime
3.3.0 - google-play-servers
1.1.0 - pixijs
4.0.2
Some library updates
tink_tcpgets secure connections - merged pr.tink_httpgets a curl client - merged pr.thx.streamreboot - merged pr.thx.stream.domreboot - merged pr.
Code Snippets
- Recurise function abstract type, also available on try.haxe.org.
P1->R->RintoP1->Rabstract type.
Updates from the Haxe core
New Proposals
- Arrow Functions.
- Spread Operator.
- Do you have an idea to improve Haxe? Consider creating a proposal.
Core Changes
40 commits have been made to Haxe compiler in the last week.
- Rework assign op and unop handling - pr.
You can get started using the latest features by downloading a nightly build of Haxe.
Take it easy everyone and have a good week!