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!
- David Mouton has released his Haxe coding convention.
- Building a Collision Engine Part 3: 3D GJK Collision Detection.
Upcoming Events
- François Barbut will be speaking at RMLL2017
about Cagettenet. - 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.
Video Tutorials
- Kha Tutorial - EP066b - Keycode.
Code Examples
- How to include a file next to a Haxe module file.
- Have an example you want to add? Consider contributing to the
code.haxe.orgcookbook.
Previews & Demos
Open Source
thx.colorKha web demo.- Webpack Haxe loader, featuring modular code splitting.
Apps & Games
- Collect all those coins from Fist’s Elimination Tower built with HaxeFlixel.
Some Library Releases
- haxe-loader
0.0.1Webpack Haxe loader - hxwayli
0.0.1 - tamina
2.0.0-alpha - awe
0.1.0 - simpleECS
git - headbutt
0.3.0 - glm
2.0.1 - nodejs-redis
1.2.0 - yloader
0.0.5 - jstack
2.3.3
Framework Updates
- Faster NME asset parse times - pull request.
Updates from the Haxe core
Current Proposals
- Add function type syntax.
- 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
35 commits have been made to Haxe compiler in the last week.
- Add new
TIdentAST node which removes the concept of unbound variables - merged. - Add special Lua metadata for handling extern closure instances - 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!