Haxe Roundup № 399

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

• Follow the new Haxe Summit twitter account.
• The Haxe Summit schedule has been released!.

Upcoming Events & Talks

• Add an upcoming event about Haxe.

Job Offers & Bounties

• MGames are looking for a Haxe developer to join them in Vilnius or Kiev.
• 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.
• Add an available job involving Haxe.

Videos

• Watch the post-mortem of how FlowPay transitioned their flagship MMO from Actionscript to Haxe.

Code Examples

• Kha & OpenFL tilemap example.
• PlatformerLuxe, learn how to use luxeengine from this open source repo.
• Have an example you want to add? Consider contributing to the code.haxe.org cookbook.

Previews & Demos

Apps & Games

• Opening door animation built with luxeengine.
• Procedurally generate sketchy looking super heros with OpenFL.
• Creative Coding.
• I set a cube on fire!

Some Library Releases

• haxe-manager git VSCode utility extension
• hxgenjs 0.3.0 ES6 support
• tink_unittest 0.5.4
• Console.hx 0.1.8
• checkstyle 2.1.16
• Haxentric 0.9.5
• hexmachina 0.29.1
• yield 1.0.1
• priori 0.8.1
• csss 0.3.0
• haxe-loader 0.1.0 webpack
• mapsheet 1.0.0
• travix 0.10.0

Updates from the Haxe core

Current Proposals

• Add Default values for enum parameters
• Add Inline markup literals.
• 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

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

• Something is rotten in the grouping of extractors - fixed.
• setCustomJSGenerator fails if output folder does not exist - fixed.

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

Take it easy everyone and have a good week!