Haxe Roundup № 395

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!
• Flash is gone, but what now?
• Fantastic Survival Game Neo Scavenger Is Now On Mobile.

Upcoming Events

• Add an upcoming event about Haxe.

Job Offers & Bounties

• GameSys are looking for a game developer to join their front end team in their Soho London offices!
• 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

• Workshop - Program a Mario like game with HaxeFlixel by David Mekersa.

Code Examples

• A Self type, kinda.
• A taste of writing type safe REST API’s with tink_web.
• Call macro from another macro as a String.
• Have an example you want to add? Consider contributing to the code.haxe.org cookbook.

Previews & Demos

Open Source

• Using textures in the justTriangle library.
• Priori demo calculator with source.

Apps & Games

• In-progress game by Adam Sehic built with OpenFL.
• Relay component with the educational tool DCACLab built with Haxe.
• Echo Reborn preview built with HaxeFlixel.

App & Game Releases

• Dungeon Arcade built with HaxeFlixel.
• Fidel still holding up on Steams New & Popular section!

LD39 Roundup

• VS: Battle of the bots using Kha by John Doughty.
• Pew Pew Princess using Haxe & love3d by Shakesoda.
• Batterycorp using plustd by Aurel.
• Laser Dodgy using luxe by Jim Truher.
• Tag in the Dark using HaxeFlixel by Dlean Jeans.
• Airship Climb using luxe by Andrei Rudenko.
• Crazy Squirrels using OpenFL by IgorsGames.
• PP-Mate using OpenFL by voxel.
• Zero Volt Z using Heaps by Sébastien Bénard.

Some Library Releases

• RxHaxe git Reactive Extensions for the Haxe
• nodegen 1.0.1
• hant 3.7.1
• easeljs 2.0.5
• priori 0.8.0
• openfl 6.0.0 Supports WebAssembly!
• lime 5.3.0
• openfl-samples 6.0.0
• pony 0.4.5
• haxentric 0.9.4
• haxe-threadpool git

Framework Updates

• Haxe Modular and Haxe Webpack example are being refactored.

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

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

• HXCPP tools speedup pull request.
• Rework format strings pull request.
• Make in a Binop - 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!