Haxe Roundup № 380

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 Summit 2017 has been announced taking place in Amsterdam between September 13th and 16th at “de Roos”.
• Future Haxe compiler feature that uses @:coreApi to enforce multi target implementations.

Upcoming Events

• Cross-platform game development with Haxe and OpenFL at SyntaxCon 2017 May 18th 2017 by Phillip Gibson.
• Add an upcoming event about Haxe.

Events Slides

• François Barbut has released his slides from his recent talk at “les Journées du logiciel libre” about Haxe and cagette.net.

Job Offers & Bounties

• London OpenFL 3± month job offer at Rocabee.
• Add an available job involving Haxe.

Video Tutorials

• Kha Tutorial - EP59 - Nape Shapes.
• Kha Tutorial - EP60 - Nape Shape Images.
• HaxeFlixel - Mouse Input - Event driven and polled.

Text Tutorials

• HaxeFlixel tutorial - Cameras.

Code Examples

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

Previews Demos & Snippets

• Video showing HaxeUI’s two way designer to source feature.
• Armory3D first look at a helper tool for creating responsive UI.
• Fake text snake game created in HaxeFlixel.
• Hegemone Pass’s new obtaining power animation.
• In game prototype editing with Kha and Elmlang preview.
• Breeding very ugly cats.
• Strange looking plants.
• Glue frameworks seeking behaviour.
• Glue frameworks screen management, input detection.
• Dino guy goes fishing.
• Short video of the closed source YUME game engine.
• Code hot-swapping implemented in Electron app for rapid development.

App and Game Releases

• Exilium HTML5 demo.
• Innocent created for Music Game Jam’17.
• Fluff Easters for iOS is now completely free.
• MinimalComps OpenFL designer beta preview.
• Web demo of the Geometrize Haxe library.
• Web demo of the Geometrize Haxe library and HaxeFlixel.

Some Library Releases

• geometrize-haxe git
• glue 0.3.2
• tink_url 0.3.1
• tink_macro 0.13.4
• tink_core 1.11.0
• http-status 1.2.0
• nme-toolkit 6.0.0
• Sugoï git
• prismic-hx 0.2.0
• haxevx 0.7.1
• tink_testrunner 0.5.5
• minimalcomps 0.9.2

Updates from the Haxe core

Current Proposals

• Add Type Matching.
• 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

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

• Inline constructors rework - pull request.
• Optimize search for descendants in DCE resulting in ~60% faster compilation - pull request.

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

Take it easy everyone and have a good week!