Haxe Roundup № 401

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

• Happy Technologies Haxe Summit 2017 report.
• Renaine, a platformer/roguelike hybrid starring Aine, the Phoenix Knight, created with HaxeFlixel has launched on Kickstarter.
• Kode Studio 17.9 has been released!.
• Haxe 3.4.3 has been released!
• Haxe 4.0.0-preview.1 has been released!
• HashLink 1.2 has been released, compatible with Haxe 4.0.0-preview.1.

Upcoming Events & Talks

• Add an upcoming event about Haxe.

Job Offers & Bounties

• InnoGames are looking for Haxe/OpenFl developer to work on Forge of Empire.
• Mail.ru are looking for a Flash/Haxe developer to work on Armored Warfare.
• Add an available job involving Haxe.

Videos

• Ryder: The Deserter trailer created with HaxeFlixel.

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.org cookbook.

Previews & Demos

Open Source

• None this week.

Closed Source

• Creative Coding preview.
• Procedurally generated medieval cities now with rivers.
• Preview of some upcoming Kha tutorial content.
• Preview of a HaxeFlixel game created for GameZanga.
• Blender-eske version of HaxeUI previewed in KodeGarden.org.

App & Game Releases

• The Last Scholar, a game for Alakajam! a 48 hour gamejam.
• Cheap Golf released to itch.io.
• Cheap Golf released to Steam.

Some Library Releases

• openfl 6.2.0
• lime 5.6.0
• tink_chunk 0.2.0
• byteConvert 1.2.0
• brotlihx 0.0.3
• hldx 1.2.0
• hlsdl 1.2.0
• hlopenal 1.0.0
• js-virtual-dom 0.9.2
• Nodule git
• docopt 0.6.4
• hxbit 1.3.0

Framework Updates

• Lime gets a new file watcher implementation - commit.

Updates from the Haxe core

Current Proposals & Discussions

• Haxelib replacement discussion.
• Add Type parameter variance for Enums.
• 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 the Spread operator.
• Do you have an idea to improve Haxe? Consider creating a proposal.

Core Changes

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

• Haxe 4.0.0 will drop the original php target, to be superseded by the newer php7 target - pull request.
• Support custom implicit function arguments like PosInfos via abstract @:fromNothing macro - pull request.
• Compiler command line cleanup - issue.
• Move Map to the haxe.ds package - commit.
• Move List to the haxe.ds package - pull request.
• Further work on the final keyword - issue.
• Add, encourage and use case var - pull request.
• Further improvements to case var syntax - comment.
• Fix for macro build loops - pull request.
• Possible idea for a drop in replacement of core? implementations - 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!