Haxe Roundup № 408

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

• The Haxe mailing list has been retired in favor of the brand new discourse powered Haxe Community!
• HaxeDevelop 5.3 has been released!
• Golgi, a replacement for Haxe’s Dispatch.hx.

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.
• 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

• Showing off HaxeUI’s brand new indevelopment responsive CSS engine.
• Showing off HaxeUI’s responsive CSS engine compiled to HTML5 and HxWidgets.
• kScenes now supports gradient masks.
• See your HaxeLib info with this zsh theme.

Closed Source

• Screenshot of Antheia, a planet from Star Crucible made with HaxeFlixel.
• New animation of the golem boss in Albert+Zoe.

App & Game Releases

• Golden Hours #procgen 2017 entry made with HaxeFlixel.
• My Toy Town #procgen 2017 entry made with OpenFL and Away3D.

Some Library Releases

• tink_slice 0.1.0
• tink_core 1.15.2
• pixi-animate 0.0.1
• Haxicord 0.1.0-alpha
• pong 0.6.0
• dox-skillx 1.0.1
• openfl 6.5.0
• lime 5.8.2

Framework Updates

• None this week.

Updates from the Haxe core

Current Proposals & Discussions

• Add polymorphic this types proposal.
• 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

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

• Add haxe.Log.formatOutput - merged.

You can get started using the latest features by downloading a nightly build of Haxe.

Take it easy everyone and have a good week!