Haxe Roundup № 385

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”. Get your early bird tickets now!

Upcoming Events

• Andy Li and Kevin Leung are hosting a workshop at this years Hong Kong Open Source Conference on how building a cross-platform game on June 9th-10th.
• Add an upcoming event about Haxe.

Job Offers & Bounties

• Fishing Cactus Games are looking for several programmers to work on porting Flash games, you can find out more details in the full job posting.
• Add an available job involving Haxe.

Community Patreon Updates

• Lewis Lepton lays out his plans for more videos tutorials, including more Kha, covering HaxeUI, box2d and many other topics!
• Kobi is figuring out if its worth porting popular libraries to pure Haxe supported via patreon. Join the discussion on the mailing list.

Code Examples

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

Previews & Demos

Open Source

• Using Haxe and advanced AI to teach robots to play chess.
• Writing unit tests in Haxe made simple and beautiful with tink_unittest.

Games

• Kitty catalyst made with HaxePunk v4 per-graphic shaders == shiny cats.
• Work in-progress Boss made with luxeengine.
• Messing around with bezier curves and luxeengine.
• Better tweening in FODBOLD created with Kha.
• Increase the juiciness of the menus in Double Turn made with HaxeFlixel.

Some Library Releases

• openfl 5.1.2
• ithril 2.0.0-beta.2
• jsonwebtoken 2.0.2
• lime 5.0.2
• json-rpc 1.4.4
• twinspire game studio git
• xpcom 1.4.0
• threejs 84.0.0
• stdlib 2.2.0
• refactor 4.0.0
• ndllfinder 1.1.1
• jslibs 1.2.0
• jquery 1.5.2
• htmlparser 3.3.0
• HaQuery 6.8.0
• hant 3.7.0
• easeljs 2.0.4
• codegen 1.4.0
• luce 0.12.1
• tink_unittest 0.5.2
• tink_testrunner 0.6.0
• redux 0.5.0
• react 1.2.0
• tink_core 1.13.1
• tink_state 0.5.1
• phaser 2.0.0
• deep_equal 0.3.0
• air 1.0.0
• haxework 0.4.0
• hexmachina 0.21.1
• flixel-addons 2.4.1

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

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

• Add support for custom local directories and wildcard versions - pr.
• Use native .bind for $bind when js-es >= 5 - pr.
• Prepare for the new macro interpreter - 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!