Haxe Roundup № 375

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 Biggest release of Armory 3D so far, by Lubos Lenco
• With vshaxe 1.4.0 released, vshaxe has an extensive amount of documentation explorering the various features of the vscode extension.
• A GUI builder for StablexUI has been released, aptly called StablexUI-Designer.

Upcoming Events

• Andy Li will speak about Haxe at this year’s FOSS Asia event.
• David Mouton will speak about Haxe at Devoxx France this year.
• Francis Bourre will speak about Haxe at Rome CodeMotion 2017.
• Add an upcoming event about Haxe.

Job Offers & Bounties

• Miles Tilmann is looking for a game coder that knows HTML5, Haxe or Unity 2D, & has shipped games multi-platform to get in contact.
• Add an available job involving Haxe.

Code Examples

• How to compile Haxe & HashLink generated interpreter file to an executable for Ubuntu 64x.
• Have an example you want to add? Consider contributing to the code.haxe.org cookbook.

Previews Demos & Snippets

• Don’t shoot while changing options!
• Shooting traps!
• Object interaction with shadows, from #5734L3R.
• Spockstar.com created with Haxe, OpenFL and React.
• Great looking HaxeUI hxWidgets OSX screenshots.
• Auto keyboard/gamepad detection & switching in Hegemone Pass.
• Project Kaira WIP made with HaxePunk.
• The Wolf’s Bite created with HaxeFlixel is looking great!
• Voxel based ambient occlusion in Armory 3D!

App and Game Releases

• GoldenBits on Steam Greenlight created with OpenFL.
• Victory Road on Steam Greenlight created with HaxeFlixel.

Some Library Releases

• haxe-ws 1.0.1
• json2object 2.2.1
• electron 1.1.1
• bindx2 2.6.2
• tink_typecrawler 0.4.0
• cloner git
• AtlasTriange git
• local-notifications 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.

• Nothing too exciting.

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

Take it easy everyone and have a good week!