Haxe Roundup № 406

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

• Checkout and test the brand new discourse powered Haxe Community!
• HaxeUI’s latest survey results are out on HaxeUI’s new blog!
• HaxeDevelop templates for unrealhx are almost ready! Code, build, test and package UE4 projects right in HaxeDevelop!

Upcoming Events & Talks

• 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

• Haxe London Meetup - Modular Haxe JS with Webpack & Lix Haxe Package Manager.

Code Examples

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

Previews & Demos

Open Source

• Use kScenes to simplify scene transitions in Kha.

Closed Source

• Boss attack in Albert and Zoe.

App & Game Releases

• None this week.

Some Library Releases

• mixin
• tamina 2.0.2
• utest 1.7.0
• enzyme 0.4.0
• hxmake 0.2.0
• travix 0.10.1
• tink_json 0.7.0
• tink_unittest 0.5.5
• tink_typecrawler 0.6.0
• no-vdom 0.3.0
• pixi-flump-runtime 0.4.1
• hxwebsql 0.5.0
• jstack 2.3.9
• pony 0.5.7

Framework Updates

• None this week.

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

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

• Rewrite the multipart/form-data handling under FastCGI #15 - pull request
• Further work done to the Haxe 4 UTF* 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!