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”.
- Haxe nightlies now have support for short lambdas or arrow functions!
- Building a collision engine “Part 1 - 2D GJK Collision Detection”.
- Dodrugs macro DI library announcement.
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.
Job Offers & Bounties
- London OpenFL 3± month job offer at Rocabee.
- Add an available job involving Haxe.
Tutorials
- HaxeFlixel - Sprite Animation.
- HaxeFlixel - Sound and Music video and article.
Code Examples
- Have an example you want to add? Consider contributing to the
code.haxe.orgcookbook.
Previews Demos & Snippets
- Speedbot preview using YUME.
- Who hasnt played football against a trashcan?.
- A running bear or flying goblin?.
- Procedurally generated medieval villages using OpenFL.
- Armory light bulb rendering.
- Armory powered GPU painting tool preview.
App and Game Releases
- Planet of Babel LD38 post-mortem.
- OpenLR an open source alternative desktop app for Line Rider.
- Aquarium king election LD38 entry.
Some Library Releases
- plustd
git - dragonbones
5.0.0 - haxpression
2.0.2 - js-virtual-dom
0.5.5 - tink_core
1.13.0 - http-status
1.2.1 - texturepacker
0.0.9 - lunar
0.1.0 - pixijs
4.5.0 - nme-toolkit
6.1.0 - dodrugs
1.0.0-beta.1 - tink_state
0.5.0 - priori
0.7.1 - priori-bootstrap
0.1.1 - PixiGAFPlayer
git - justTriangles
git
Updates from the Haxe core
Current Proposals
- Allow context specific keywords for field & variable names.
- Add Type Matching.
- Add Macro method forwarding.
- Add Generator Expressions.
- Support Inline XML.
- Add Union Types.
- 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.
You can get started using the latest features by downloading a nightly build of Haxe.
Take it easy everyone and have a good week!