Haxe Roundup № 417

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 3.4.5 has been released.
• 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.
• The Haxe Summit team can provide invitation letters to help get a US Visa to attend this years conference.
• Dead Cells is coming to the Nintendo Switch, PS4 and Xbox consoles in 2018!
• Armory 0.2 has been released.

Upcoming Events & Talks

• Add an upcoming event about Haxe.

Job Offers & Bounties

• The Haxe Foundation are recruiting! They are looking for a Compiler Developer and Marketing & Communications Evangelist to join them!.
• GameSys is hiring a Haxe Game Developer to joing them in London.
• Add an available job involving Haxe.

Videos

• Kha Tutorial EP077 - While Loop Circle.
• Borealis Alta, is an interactive northern lights experience, worked on by @d0oo0p and team using Haxe and Unreal Engine.
• Joshua Stone devlog #34 on why he is using Haxe for his HTML5 games.

Code Examples

• Beginner: Invoke object method by string.
• Design patterns: Observer.
• Have an example you want to add? Consider contributing to the code.haxe.org cookbook.

Previews & Demos

Open Source

• Kha lighting, stl & obj importing with a demo and source code available.
• SimpleText, multiline text in Kha, with a demo and source on KodeGarden.

Closed Source

• Rainbow avatar selection screen.
• Little pseudo 3D HaxePunk screenshot.
• Toon shading for the Medieval Fantasy City generator.

App & Game Releases

• Archers Defence created with HaxeFlixel.
• Gods of Arena: Battles is available on Newgrounds, created with OpenFL
• All-in-One Solitaire 2, the free version is available for iPhone and iPad, made with OpenFL.
• Band of Tanks on itch.io made with HaxeFlixel, for #GGJ18.
• Signal Loss created for #GGJ18, made with Haxe and PixiJS.
• Bichitos? made with HaxeFlixel for #GGJ18 gives every player a unique creature.
• Transmission Technician: Reflector Deflector created with HaxeFlixel for #GGJ18.

Some Library Releases

• easynet git easy network lib w/ plenty of samples
• equals 1.0.1
• tink_macro 0.16.3
• safety 0.1.0 Null safety for Haxe
• app 0.0.4
• tink_anon 0.3.0
• matrix-im 0.1.0
• hxboto 0.0.1 Externs for AWS python sdk
• haxe-loader 0.7.3
• pony 0.7.7

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

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

• Type array access on Array<T> as Null<T> - 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!