Haxe Roundup № 403

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

• Contribute to Haxe in Hacktoberfest 2017.
• HaxeUI has a brand new website, recently released!.
• Haxe 3.4.4 and Haxe 4.0.0-preview.2 have been released!.
• Porting the BI Analytics Platform from Flex to Haxe/HTML5 case study.
• Renaine, a platformer/roguelike hybrid starring Aine, the Phoenix Knight, created with HaxeFlixel has launched on Kickstarter.
• KodeGarden now has its own Twitter account.
• Check out the tools which are used to make Speer - Part 1.
• HashLink 1.2 has been released, compatible with Haxe 4.0.0-preview.1 and 4.0.0-preview.2.

Upcoming Events & Talks

• The latest London Haxe Meetup, featuring Webpack Haxe usage, the Lix package manager and more, at 6pm on Thursday, November 2, 2017.
• Add an upcoming event about Haxe.

Job Offers & Bounties

• Bayer und Preuss are looking for a student to join their team in Berlin.
• 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

• Armory global illumination.

Code Examples

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

Previews & Demos

Open Source

• The source for Zero Volt X by Sébastien Bénard made for LD39, ranked 6th, has been released.
• Armory can now capture animation frames!
• Mario Clone available to play on KhaGarden.
• Creative Coding picture created with OpenGeom and OpenFL.
• Procedurally generated medieval cities now can have rivers.

Closed Source

• Racing game playable demo.
• Track shape now loaded from SVG file.

App & Game Releases

• None this week.

Some Library Releases

• hxmake 0.1.7
• openfl 6.2.1
• lime 5.7.0
• polygonal-ds 2.0.1
• nanotest 1.1.1
• tink_await 0.2.0
• enzyme 0.3.0
• closure 0.2.0
• vscode 1.17.0
• tink_http_middleware 0.1.0
• pony 0.4.6
• mbedtls 0.0.8
• hexmachina 0.31.0

Framework Updates

• None this week.

Updates from the Haxe core

Current Proposals & Discussions

• Add @:native on structure fields.
• HaxeLib Replacement Stage 1.
• Add Type parameter variance for Enums.
• Add Default values for enum parameters.
• Add Inline markup literals.
• Add Module-level functions & variables.
• 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

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

• Add new function type syntax - merged.
• Generate faster code for x.iterator() for JavaScript - merged.
• Split haxe.http.Http up into target specific implementations - merged.
• Add new using default Path syntax - 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!