Haxe Roundup № 405

Welcome to the latest edition of the Haxe Roundup. Haxe is a high level, strictly typed programming language and cross-compiler.

Haxe Summit 2017

• The videos from this years Haxe Summit are being uploaded to the YouTube channel which you should subscribe to!

Community Updates

News and Articles

• Contribute to Haxe in Hacktoberfest 2017.
• Hanging on Balloons in Speer.
• Help make HaxeUI even better by filling out the survey, it takes less than a minute to complete!
• Kha Game series tutorial progress update.
• Super Mario Bros running on KodeGarden!
• Interest shown in adding Golang target to Haxe.

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

• TetraSoft LLC. (Saint-Petersburg, Russia) are looking for a ActionScript/Flex developer who is willing to learn Haxe/TypeScript languages.
• InnoGames are looking Haxe/OpenFL Game Developer needed to work on Forge of Empires or Elvenar.
• Bayer und Preuss are looking for a student to join their team in Berlin.
• Mail.ru are looking for a Flash/Haxe developer to work on Armored Warfare.
• Add an available job involving Haxe.

Videos

• None this week.

Code Examples

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

Previews & Demos

Open Source

• None this week.

Closed Source

• Racing game preview .
• Four player split screen preview.
• The Kaizen HaxeUI app gets a facelift.

App & Game Releases

• Tetristhing created for #OneHourGameJam.
• Play KhappyBalt on itch.io created with Kha.
• Halloween Party released on the Play Store created with OpenFL.
• Old School Test Drive has been release on the Play Store & App store.

Some Library Releases

• no-vdom 0.1.0
• plumob git
• tink_json 0.6.3
• openfl 6.3.0
• lime 5.8.0
• as3hx 1.0.6
• sortablejs.npm 0.0.3-alpha
• hxsocketio 0.1.0
• hxmake 0.1.8
• texturePacker 0.0.10

Framework Updates

• HaxePunk various collection of updates - pull request.

Updates from the Haxe core

Current Proposals & Discussions

• Global using at declaration site proposal.
• 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

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

• Allow var ?x:T - issue.
• Hashlink 1.3 has been released - tag.
• Rework exception handling for the Javascript generator - 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!