Haxe Roundup № 414

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!
• Post-mortem for LD40 Ignorance is bliss.
• The Android build adventures of a project stuck in the old ecosystem.
• The state of Haxe at the end of 2017 reddit thread.
• Checkout OpenFL for NPM beta, WebGL canvas and DOM rendering available for Haxe, TypeScript and ES5/6.

Upcoming Events & Talks

• Add an upcoming event about Haxe.

Job Offers & Bounties

• Add an available job involving Haxe.

Videos

• Kha Tutorial - EP075 - Static Variables.
• Kha Tutorial - EP076 - Tank Controls.

Code Examples

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

Previews & Demos

Open Source

• HaxeUI Kha text input thats fully functional.
• Keyboard controlled HaxeUI + HaxeFlixel menu.
• Bankai, open source game, using NodeJS, CreateJS and MongoDB.
• Good old Haxe as a Hexalang target.

Closed Source

• Exploration-focused dungeon crawler.
• UI animation preview built with HaxeFlixel.

App & Game

• Gods of Arena: Battles made with OpenFL targeting HTML5 has been released.
• Panzer Tactics available for Windows and Android.

Some Library Releases

• waud 1.0.1
• pony 0.6.9
• gasm-openfl 1.0.4
• gasm 1.0.6
• haxicord 0.2.0
• react-media 0.0.1
• amf3haxe 1.0.5-alpha
• exception 0.1.4
• tink_lang 0.6.1
• jasper git Cassowary implementation
• haxeui-diff git HaxeUI virtual DOM

Framework Updates

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

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

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

• [HashLink] Multithreading support in-progress pull request.
• [HashLink] Mobile support in-progress 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!