Haxe Roundup № 390

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”. Only a few days left to get your early bird tickets!
• Kha game series 001 is almost ready for launch!
• Jeff Ward’s thoughts about Haxe’s Either type.

Upcoming Events

• HaxeFlixel for HTML5 and Shapes in Haxe meetup in London at GameSys this July 6th 2017.
• Add an upcoming event about Haxe.

Job Offers & Bounties

• Secret Media are looking for full stack Haxe developer to join them, who are a remote friendly company.
• 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

• The Haxe vscode extension has been updated to 1.8.0 with using the new Tree View API.
• Preview of a priori powered app near release!

Apps & Games

• Fists Elimination Tower created with HaxeFlixel.
• Eyeball champion! created with HaxeFlixel.
• Single player rumble created with HaxeFlixel.

App & Game Releases

• Snack Time Arcade made with HaxeFlixel is available now from the App Store and the Play Store.

Some Library Releases

• hexmachina 0.25.0
• json2object 2.4.3
• smtpmailer 0.3.0
• codegen 1.5.0
• undoqueue 1.0.1
• stdlib 2.2.1
• js-virtual-dom 0.8.0
• tink_hxx 0.13.1
• closure 0.1.3
• openfl 5.1.5
• lime 5.2.1
• haxentric 0.9.3

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

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

• Type parameter overhaul - discussion.
• Never allow parseInt(null) - pull request.
• Change Null<T> to an abstract - merged.
• Add haxe.Log.traceOutput - pull request & discussion.
• Error format change - 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!