Haxe Roundup № 412

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

• Haxe Summit 2018 has been announced which will take place in Seattle, May 3-5 2018!
• FlowPlay overhauls Vegas World, ditching Adobe for Haxe.
• Kids Industries 2017 showcase!
• HashLink 1.4 has been released, which requires Haxe 4.0.0+GIT.
• WebIDL and WebAssembly support for Haxe JavaScript and Hashlink targets has been released!.
• Armory3D 0.1 has been released.
• Armory3D launches their Patreon page!

Upcoming Events & Talks

• Add an upcoming event about Haxe.

Job Offers & Bounties

• ParadiseProjects are looking for Haxe developers, remote friendly.
• Gamesys are looking for a Haxe Game Developer to join them in London.
• Haxe developer wanted by Jefferson Wolfe to join them in London.
• Add an available job involving Haxe.

Videos

• None this week, add one for the next issue.

Code Examples

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

Previews & Demos

Open Source

• A 5 year old gamejam game has been ported to Heaps, now running on HTML5 and HashLink.

Closed Source

• None this week, add one for the next issue.

App & Game

• Play Backeroids, a retro Asteroids clone made for Github Game Off 2017.
• NMC Christmas eCard made with HaxeFlixel.

Some Library Releases

• pony 0.6.4
• hxmake 0.2.2
• gasm-openfl 1.0.0
• gasm 1.0.0
• hxfsm 1.0.0
• flixel-templates 2.4.6
• format 3.4.0
• tink_macro 0.15.4

Framework Updates

• Initial TypeScript definition generator for hxgenjs pull request.

Updates from the Haxe core

Current Proposals & Discussions

• Add traits proposal.
• 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

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

• Unicode support pull request.
• Reduce the number of errors printed because of @:overload metadata - commit.

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

Take it easy everyone and have a good week!