Haxe Roundup № 374

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

• Northgard created by Shiro Games was, on the 23rd Feb, the № 1 selling game, globally, on Steam.
• Northgard Haxe mailing list release thread.
• try.haxe.org updates, pictographs for types with description and function parameters helper during completion.
• How to create a NodeJS module with Haxe.
• Help improve HaxeFlixel Mechanics.
• Haxe Coding Tips Part 1.
• Haxe Coding tips Part 2.
• Haxe development on Android.
• Luxe engine status 1 - the year is 2017.
• Luxe engine status 2 - device pixels.
• Luxe engine status 3 - asset packer.
• Luxe engine dev log 3 - convergence.
• Lightweight tween library TweenXCore has been released and comes with an easing editor.
• The Haxe Ludum Dare 37 Roundup.
• Kha Tutorial channel update - exclusives.

Upcoming Events

• Andy Li will speak about Haxe at this years FOSS Asia event.
• Add an upcoming event about Haxe.

Recent Events

• Haxe React Architecture slides.
• The 2nd London Haxe Meetup video.

Job Offers & Bounties

• $100 bounty to help Lars Doucet fix a black screen error in this Haxe project.
• Add an available job involving Haxe.

Video Tutorials

• How to read user input tutorial.
• Kha Tutorials - EP52 - Graphics One
• Kha Tutorials - EP53 - Polgon
• Kha Tutorials - EP54 - Anti Alias

Codebook Examples

• Using Enum / ADT
• Access a field using a string
• Working with CPPIA
• Adding a HTML element to the DOM
• Loading an external file
• Create a server with Haxe/NodeJS

Previews Demos & Snippets

• I took out the shield!
• Preview of HaxeUI v2 WinForms backend!
• GPU based 3D painting using Armory and Kha.
• WootMath edtech polling app, created with Haxe, gets a bunch of new features.

App and Game Releases

• Pocket Kingdom released by 08Games. Puzzle game made with Haxe, OpenFL and HaxePunk.
• Reflex - Jump & Avoid made with HaxeFlixel has been released on the Play Store by the Ligar Group.

Some library releases

• tweenxcore 1.0.3
• goodies git
• monoexport git
• json2object 2.1.0
• linc nanovg git
• ktx parser git

Updates from the Haxe core

Current Proposals

• Add Macro method forwarding.
• Add Generator Expressions.
• Support Inline XML.
• Add Union Types.
• Add Arrow functions.
• Add the Spread operator.
• Do you have an idea to improve Haxe? Consider creating a proposal.

Core Changes

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

• Issue with inline control flow - fixed.
• Add support for --php-front for the php7 target - merged.
• Add source map support for the php7 target - merged.

You can get started using the latest features by downloading a nightly build of Haxe.

Take it easy everyone and have a good week!