Haxe Roundup № 387

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!
• Eval The new Haxe macro interpreter!
• New Armory build 11 is out!

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.

Video Tutorials

• Kha tutorial - EP061 - Nape shape materials.

Code Examples

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

Previews & Demos

Open Source

• Look out, theres a tiger! Echo entity demo.

Apps & Games

• Preview of a procedurally generated race track.
• Preview of a new portfolio built with OpenFL and Away3D.
• Portfolio 3D model viewer progress piece usig OpenFL and Away3D.
• Defeating an AI opponent.
• Mastery of titles in Hegemone Pass.

Some Library Releases

• hre 0.1.3 Pure Haxe ES7 regular expression engine.
• hmm 2.0.1 Gets windows support.
• haxpression 2.0.5
• tink_pure 0.3.2
• tink_hxx 0.13.0
• tink_lang 0.5.1
• tink_geom2 0.2.1
• tink_macro 0.14.0
• js-virtual-dom 0.6.2
• coconut.vdom 0.4.1
• coconut.ui 0.6.1
• jwt 1.0.0
• hx-color-trace 0.0.7
• haxegon 0.9.0
• puremvc-asynccommand-multicore 1.2.0
• puremvc-asynccommand-standard 1.2.0
• echo git

Updates from the Haxe core

Current Proposals

• Add Type Matching.
• Add Macro method forwarding.
• Add Union Types.
• Add the Spread operator.
• Do you have an idea to improve Haxe? Consider creating a proposal.

Core Changes

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

• Core Unicode support coming to Haxe - branch.
• Added the Eval target - merged.
• Add copy to IMap - merged.
• Discussion on improving EnumFlags - issue.
• Lua try fix - pull request.
• Macro build resolution order - 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!

Oh, also a Swift target looks like its just started being worked on.