Haxe Roundup № 415

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!
• This years Haxe Summit 2018 has a great deal with the Seattle Hilton.
• OpenFL 7.0.0 release, the TypeScript, ES6 JavaScript and ES5 JavaScript release.
• FlashDevelop 5.3.1 has been released.

Upcoming Events & Talks

• Add an upcoming event about Haxe.

Job Offers & Bounties

• GameSys is hiring a Haxe Game Developer to joing them in London.
• Add an available job involving Haxe.

Videos

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

Code Examples

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

Previews & Demos

Open Source

• Checkout OpenLR which is made with OpenFL.
• HaxeUI Command line utility has been released.
• Preview of the HaxeUI HaxeFlixel backend.
• First iteration of the HaxeUI-Kha text backend.
• Quik, a gravity flip platformer, a useful learning resource.
• Armory now lets you embed and read .blend files at runtime.

Closed Source

• Funplox’s recent Android and iOS game preview.

App & Game

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

Some Library Releases

• hxArbitraryPrecisionInt 1.0.0
• pony 0.7.3
• haxegon 0.11.1 - release notes
• ki-filesystem 1.2.0
• tink_hxx 0.14.0
• openfl 7.0.0
• lime 6.0.1
• tink_macro 0.16.0
• modular 0.9.3 - thread
• webpack-haxe-loader git
• hexmachina 0.34.0
• mmvc 1.6.3
• haxeui-core 0.0.3
• haxeui-flixel 0.0.0
• haxeui-pixijs 0.0.2
• haxeui-openfl 0.0.2
• haxeui-nme 0.0.2
• haxeui-hxwidgets 0.0.2
• haxeui-html5 0.0.2
• input_lib 1.0.0

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

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

• Nothing of real interest this week.

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

Take it easy everyone and have a good week!