Haxe Roundup № 404

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.
• Help make HaxeUI even better by filling out the survey, it takes less than a minute to complete!
• HaxeUI has a brand new website, recently released!.
• Renaine, a platformer/roguelike hybrid starring Aine, the Phoenix Knight, created with HaxeFlixel has launched on Kickstarter.
• Super Mario Bros running on KodeGarden!
• Find out how path movement is handled in Speer.
• Learn more about setting up you own Haxe development environment setup.
• How I wrote my own 3D engine and shipped a game in 20 months.
• Interest shown in adding Golang target to Haxe.
• Automatically converting the Spine runtime into Haxe.
• Haxe 3.4.4 and Haxe 4.0.0-preview.2 have been released!.

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

• Gameplay footage of Double Turn, a pro wrestling game made with HaxeFlixel.

Code Examples

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

Previews & Demos

Open Source

• Armory is getting an auto updater.
• Armory’s latest preview, a space corridor.
• Armory reaching its original intended goals.
• Creative coding preview using OpenGeom.
• HaxeDevelop template for using and getting start with UnrealHx.
• PolyominoTriangles targeting, every platform?!

Closed Source

• An in-progress game being made with Kha.
• Stress testing Yume, a 3D engine built on-top of Lime.
• Synchronizing character animations in Frogicross with HaxeFlixel.
• Pixel art battle animation being made with OpenFL.

App & Game Releases

• Buzz Keeper made with HaxeFlixel for #WeeklyGameJam.
• Limboid made with Haxe for #OneHourGameJam .

Some Library Releases

• hxIni 3.0.0
• haxe-concurrent 1.0.0
• byteConvert 2.0.2
• waud 0.9.15
• modular 0.7.0
• gsap 1.0.4
• openfl 6.2.2
• lime 5.7.1
• mbedtls 0.0.9

Framework Updates

• NodeJS support added to Haxe Modular - merged.

Updates from the Haxe core

Current Proposals & Discussions

• Haxelib Replacement Stage 2.
• Add @:native on structure fields.
• 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

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

• Cache the HXCPP cache on travis - 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!