Haxe Roundup № 396

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 alternative try.haxe site with macro support has been recently updated but still has features in the works.
• Aurel’s Batterycorp LD39 post mortem.
• ThinQbator HaxeFlixel scrolling devlog entry.

Upcoming Events & Talks

• Ronan Sandford will be talking about his teams recent work with the Ethereum blockchain, smart contracts and web3 at The Haxe Summit.
• 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.

Code Examples

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

Previews & Demos

Open Source

• Gradients starting to look better in justTriangles.

Apps & Games

• ThinQbator, a new inprogress problem solving/invention social media platform built with OpenFL and HaxeFlixel.
• Niums fake 3D method preview.
• Generative art with OpenFL.
• Put your tent near a bear cave.
• Celebrate a little in Fists Elimination.

Some Library Releases

• haxe-doctest 1.0.6
• SpriterHaxeEngine 2.1.0
• hxmlinstall 0.0.3
• modular 0.3.0
• openfl 6.0.1
• away3d 5.0.3
• TownGeneratorOS git

Updates from the Haxe core

Current Proposals

• Add Inline markup literals.
• Add Support for code blocks.
• 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

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

• Add TypeInstantiator to Unserializer 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!