Haxe Roundup № 386

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!
• Papers Please is getting a short film adaptation!
• Another Haxe surprise, unification on an Array, a discussion from the mailing list.
• A business intelligence and maps platform are migrating away from AS3 & Flex to Haxe using HaxeUI and its OpenFL backend.

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.

Code Examples

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

Previews & Demos

Open Source

• New parameter info in the Haxe IntelliJIDEA plugin.

Games

• Cheating with vertex colours web demo.
• Getting bullet physics working in Kha web demo, press SPACE.
• Further Boss development.

Some Library Releases

• liquidfunx git
• KhaRTS git
• http-status 1.3.1
• js-virtual-dom 0.6.0
• hxmake 0.1.5
• embed-js 0.1.0
• macro-tools 0.0.4
• tink_querystring 0.5.0
• priori 0.7.2
• haxe-strings 4.0.0
• lime 5.0.3

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

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

• Flatten generated Lua namespaces - pr.
• Ocaml plugins possibly coming to the new macro interpreter - commit.

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

Take it easy everyone and have a good week!