Haxe Roundup № 394

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!
• The Haxe vscode extension recently has been updated, now with automatic tasks and an extension API.
• The OpenFL team has released the Lime vscode extension which makes use of the new extension API.

Upcoming Events

• 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.

Code Examples

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

Previews & Demos

Open Source

• Creating, extending and reusing components in the Priori framework.
• OpenFL CRT shader effect.

Apps & Games

• UI mockup for command line to GUI app.

App & Game Releases

• Cursed Treasure 2 currently with 40% off available on Steam.

Some Library Releases

• closure 0.1.4
• extension-network 1.4.1
• flixel-demos 2.4.1
• flixel-addons 2.5.0
• flixel 4.3.0
• pixijs 4.5.3
• hscript 2.1.1
• smtpmailer 0.4.0
• polygot git

Framework Updates

• NME WinRT target - pull request.
• HaxeUI I18N support - pull request.
• Initial support for OpenFL 5.0 TileMap for HaxeFlixel - pull request.

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

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

• Typing order vs inline - issue.

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

Take it easy everyone and have a good week!