Haxe Roundup № 409

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!
• Haxe IntelliJIDEA plugin 0.11.2 has been released!
• Updated collection of samples for HaxeUI v2.
• Checkout this collection of templates for VSCode & Haxe.
• Kha game example repo has been updated to work with Kode 17.

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

• Array access of a database manager.
• Using Iterators as Generic Type Parameters.
• JavaScript inline web workers in Haxe.
• Have an example you want to add? Consider contributing to the code.haxe.org cookbook.

Previews & Demos

Open Source

• HaxeUI previewing Android support.
• HaxeUI’s new CSS engine showing off its support for CSS transitions.
• Showing off HaxeUI’s responsive CSS engine compiled to HTML5 and HxWidgets.
• Vanilla Haxe JS canvas example on try.haxe.org.

Closed Source

• Big city lights procedurally generated with Away3D and OpenFL.
• Shapes & Animation 21-11-17 daily shader doodle.

App & Game Releases

• KnightRogue created with HaxeFlixel is available for Android from the Play Store.

Some Library Releases

• kong.hx 1.2.3
• hexmachina 0.33.0
• tink_lang 0.5.3
• modular 0.7.1
• utest 1.7.2
• pony 0.6.1
• classnames 0.1.0
• enzyme 0.4.2
• reselect 0.0.3
• hxmlinstall 0.0.7
• chrome-extension 62.0.0
• chrome-app 62.0.0

Framework Updates

• None this week.

Updates from the Haxe core

Current Proposals & Discussions

• Add stack based tuples proposal.
• Add key => value iteration syntax proposal.
• 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

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

• Unicode support pull request.
• Build macro import resolution 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!