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
- The 1st Haxe London Meetup hosted by Gamesys, videos are online which includes the HashLink release, the newest Haxe target, Part 1 and Part 2.
- The Unofficial HashLink announcement thread.
- Interesting list of non-game related Haxe project thread.
Recent Talks
- Lubos Lenco’s slides from his recent Blender 2016 Conference talk about Armory3D.
Upcoming Events
- Francis Bourre will be talking at Devoxx about Extending JavaScript, Haxe and hexMachina on the 1st November.
- Add an upcoming event about Haxe.
Job Offers & Bounties
- A potential total of €600 of OpenFL bounties are available until November 4th.
- 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.
- 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.
Video Tutorials
- Kha Tutorials - EP50 - iOS Touch.
- Kha Tutorials - EP51 - Android Touch.
- HaxeExamples - EP001 - How to install and run Haxe the first time.
- HaxeExamples - EP002 - How to setup OpenFL and compile Haxe for iOS.
Podcasts
- Lostcast 188: Level Up Lars podcast about Haxe, HaxeFlixel and more. “You won’t want to miss this conversation with Defender’s Quest developer and open source advocate Lars Doucet.”.
- Lostcast 189: Platform Percolator podcast talking about JavaScript vs. Haxe vs. Unity. “Let’s talk about platforms. Do you dig HTML5, Unity, HaxeFlixel?”.
App & Game releases
- Rydberg made with Kha available on
itch.io. - Strings made with Haxe available on the Google Play Store.
Previews, Demos & Snippets
- Armory3D Voxel Cone Tracing preview.
- Armory3D Grease Pencil preview.
- Atom.io video player plugin.
- Use a cloak and spear to cross chasms.
- Recent HashLink benchmarks part 1 and part 2.
- Juicy pong.
- PakkaPets will have a companion iWatch app.
Some library releases
- alexa
0.0.2 for Amazon Alexa - ufront-tool
1.0.1 - electron-api
git - gsap
1.0.2 - extension-networking
1.0.0 - samcodes-notifications
1.0.4 - tink_typecrawler
0.2.0 - extension-facebookads
1.1.2 - extension-googleplaygames
1.5.2 - extension-gpgrest
1.0.3 - hxnodejs-serialport
1.0.0 - haxe-ws
0.1.1 - extern-js-aws-sdk
git - extern-js-validator
git - bind
0.1.1 - hexMachina
0.7.0 - hxprim
0.0.2 - robotlegs
0.4.0 - swiftsuspenders
0.2.0 - aws
0.6.1 - hxlog
0.1.0
IDE updates
Updates from the Haxe core
New Proposals
- Add Union Types.
- Do you have an idea to improve Haxe? Consider creating a proposal.
Core Changes
34 commits have been made to Haxe compiler in the last two weeks.
- Add
haxe.extern.AsVar- commit
You can get started using the latest features by downloading a nightly build of Haxe.
Take it easy everyone and have a good week!