Welcome to the latest edition of the Haxe Roundup. Haxe is a high level, strictly typed programming language and cross-compiler.
Community Updates
Haxe Summit 2017
- Haxe Summit 2017 Party Report.
- Haxe Summit 2017 community sourced links document.
News and Articles
- Haxe
3.4.3has been released!
- Haxe
4.0.0-preview.1has been released! - HashLink
1.2has been released, compatible with Haxe4.0.0-preview.1, with partial LibUV support. - 10 Year Anniversary! Haxe, HXCPP and NME.
- The Haxe Foundation and Docler Holding become strategic partners.
- Developers start your engines, the race to transition your game off Flash has officially begun.
- Kha has support to compile to PS4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch backends.
- Reverse arc length parameterization article.
Upcoming Events & Talks
- Add an upcoming event about Haxe.
Job Offers & Bounties
- Add an available job involving Haxe.
Videos
- Kha tutorial - EP70 - Volume Control.
- Kha tutorial - EP71 - Depth.
- Kha tutorial - EP72 - Depth Refine.
Code Examples
- Set a GIT dependency directly in hxml with
-lib LIBNAME:git:https://github.com/USER/REPO.git#BRANCH. - Have an example you want to add? Consider contributing to the
code.haxe.orgcookbook.
Previews & Demos
Open Source
- Global illumination from a little game made with Armory.
- OpenLR is getting a HTML5 version thanks to OpenFL.
- Procedurally generated cities.
Closed Source
- Relay switch in action built with the Circuit Simulator.
- Like mamma said, you gotta go fast.
App & Game Releases
- rgbwiz, a
#OneHourGameJamentry.
Some Library Releases
- ki-filesystem Cross-platform filesystem lib
- heaps
1.0.0 - hxcpp
3.4.188 - winrpi
1.0.0 - hxmlinstall
0.0.5 - jwt
1.3.0 - gotocore-hx
1.0.0 - gotocore-hx-nodejs
0.0.1 - pixijs
4.5.5 - jstack
2.3.5 - zlender
git - waud
0.9.13 - modular
0.5.0 - haxe-loader
0.2.1 - haxe-doctest
1.1.0 - openfl
6.1.2 - lime
5.5.0 - as3hx
1.0.5 - starling
1.8.11 - away3d
5.0.4 - away3d-samples
5.0.2 - svg
1.1.2 - tnative
1.2.1 - hexmachina
0.29.2 - tink_typecrawler
0.5.2 - tink_macro
0.14.2 - tink_anon
0.1.3 - js-virtual-dom
0.9.1 - coconut.vdom
0.4.2 - nme
6.0.58 - Console.hx
0.2.3 - yield
1.1.0 - flixel-demos
2.4.2 - promhx-unit-test
2.2.0 - byteConvert
1.0.3
Framework Updates
- Hololens support for Kha - pull request.
- Initial GLES3 pon GLView for NME - pull request.
- Fix joystick mappings, optimizations with retrocompatibility - pull request.
- Threaded cache for HXCPP, speedup by
33%- pull request.
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
60 commits have been made to Haxe compiler in the last week.
finalkeyword debate…? - issue.- Better unification error messages - issue.
- Remove
haxe.unit- pull request. - Add the
finalkeyword - pull request. - Implement language independent source maps - issue.
- Set custom target configuration from command line - issue.
- Super flatten JS output - issue.
- Example of how to use custom OCaml coded generators with the compiler - comment.
You can get started using the latest features by downloading a nightly build of Haxe.
Take it easy everyone and have a good week!