Haxe Roundup № 397

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!
• CPP backend for love3d is working in addition to the Lua backend.
• Chip-8 emulator written in Haxe and Lime.

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.

Videos

• LD39 Timelapse of Batterycorp.

Code Examples

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

Previews & Demos

Open Source

• Improving gradient support in justTriangles.

Apps & Games

• Procedurally generated 3D medieval cities.
• Procedurally generated medieval cities being exported to SVG.
• Obsessing with animated minimaps.
• Haxe WebGL racing game preview.
• Polishing the Fist’s Elimination Tower’s cutscenes.

Website Releases

• Michael Baczynski‏ has relaunched his website as a single page site.

App & Game Releases

• Beat made for #onehourgamejam.
• Stun slow made for #onehourgamejam.
• 64 FISTS made for #lowrezjam using OpenFL.
• 64 Ducks made for #lowrezjam using Kha.

Some Library Releases

• haxe-loader 0.0.1 Webpack Haxe Loader You can find examples at the webpack-haxe-example repo.
• puremvc-undo-multicore 1.2.0
• haxe-doctest 1.0.8
• haxevx 0.7.2
• waud 0.9.11
• ded 0.1.0
• csss 0.2.2
• turnwig 0.1.1
• zame-particles 1.0.4
• vscode 1.15.0
• howlerjs 2.0.4

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

39 commits have been made to Haxe compiler in the last two weeks.

• hscript supports @async and @split, basically await - commit.

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

Take it easy everyone and have a good week!