Haxe Roundup № 413

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!
• Try as3hx online built using a modified version of try.haxe.org!
• Neko 2.2.0 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

• Timelapse for Ignorance is Bliss, an LD40 game.
• Kha tutorial - EP073 - Video Capture.
• Kha tutorial - EP074 - Rotation Revised.

Code Examples

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

Previews & Demos

Open Source

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

Closed Source

• Kha Shader toy, compiled to HTML5 and native.
• In-progress pixel editor built using OpenFL.

App & Game

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

Some Library Releases

• react-router-4 0.0.1
• gasm-openfl 1.0.2
• gasm 1.0.3
• modular 0.8.0
• bindx2 2.6.3
• dollar 1.0.0
• pony 0.6.5
• vscode 1.19.0

Framework Updates

• Rough Haxe and TypeScript extern support added to hxgenjs.

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

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

• Unicode support pull request.
• [js] Generate value instanceof MyClass instead of Std.is(value, MyClass) 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!