Haxe Roundup № 393

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!

Upcoming Events

• A Haxe developer and in or near Rio de Janeiro? Jonas Malaco is thinking of creating a meetup.
• 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.
• InnoGames are looking for Haxe and OpenFL game developers to work on Forge of Empires.
• Playtika are looking for Haxe and Xamarin developers to work on their first project in China.
• Add an available job involving Haxe.

Video Tutorials

• Kha Tutorial - EP067 - Screen wrap.
• Kha Tutorial - EP068 - Pivot point rotation.
• Kha Tutorial - EP069 - Sine cosine.

Code Examples

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

Previews & Demos

Open Source

• GPU based signed distance field generator being added to Armory.
• Preview of the new look HaxeUI documentation which is coming soon!

Apps & Games

• Love3d + Haxe powered game gets a profiler.
• UFO clicker created with Flambe.

App & Game Releases

• Endless Rain v1.1 created with HaxeFlixel and has been released onto itch.io.
• HanDrawn, a HaxeFlixel powered educational physics drawing has been released for Android. Checkout the trailer.

Some Library Releases

• hscript 2.1.0
• haxegon 0.9.1
• flixel-templates 2.4.3
• brotlihx 0.0.2 pure Haxe Brotli compression lib
• hexmachina 0.27.2
• CUI 1.0.0
• Bash 1.0.1
• tink_state 0.5.2

Updates from the Haxe core

Current Proposals

• Add Module-level functions & variables.
• 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

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

• Feedback wanted: Async Connection and Manager for RecordMacros - 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!