Haxe Roundup № 376

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

• Haxe 3.4.2 has been released!.
• Cheap Golf Kickstarter is now live! The game will be made using HaxeFlixel by Miles Tilmann.
• Runtime SWF support now in OpenFL 4.9!
• An in-depth DCI example explorering HaxeDCI.
• Hegemon Pass - Iterations of the enemy spawners article.
• Learn more about Zero-cost abstracts on the Haxe blog by Dan Korostelev.

Recent Events

• Andy Li’s slides from their recent FOSS Asia talk are now available.

Upcoming Events

• David Mouton will speak about Haxe at Devoxx France this year.
• Francis Bourre will speak about Haxe at Rome CodeMotion 2017.
• François Barbut will speak about Haxe and Cagette.net, a open source webapp for CSA / food co-ops at “les Journées du logiciel libre” in Lyon, April 2.
• Add an upcoming event about Haxe.

Job Offers & Bounties

• Add an available job involving Haxe.

Video Tutorials

• Haxe development with Visual Studio Code tutorial.
• Game from Scratch HaxeFlixel - EP01 - Hello World.
• Kha Tutorial - EP55 - Using Extends.

Text Tutorials

• Game from Scratch HaxeFlixel - EP02 - Sprites.

Code Examples

• Have an example you want to add? Consider contributing to the code.haxe.org cookbook.

Previews Demos & Snippets

• Weak enemies.
• Extracted album art.
• An arc ball following the camera.
• Experimenting with hxnoise to help generate levels.
• UI for an indevelopment HaxeFlixel picross game.
• An old project, Barrage, compiling and working in Kha.

App and Game Releases

• Glorch’s Great Escape is coming to Steam on April 3rd!

Some Library Releases

• tink_core 1.9.1
• tink_unittest 0.1.0
• tink_testrunner 0.2.0
• travix_release 0.1.1
• openfl 4.9.1
• lime 4.0.1
• jstack 2.3.1
• hxcpp 3.4.64
• redux 0.4.0
• priori 0.6.0
• hxobfuscator git

Framework Updates

• Kha adds Oculus support - merged.
• Kha adds an Unreal engine backend - commit.

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

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

• Goodbye SPOD - 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!