Haxe Roundup № 419

Welcome to the latest edition of the Haxe Roundup. Haxe is a high level, strictly typed programming language and cross-compiler.

Community Updates

Haxe Summit 2018

• 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.
• FlowPlay are sponsoring this years Haxe Summit.

News and Articles

• Haxe 3.4.6 has been released!
• HaxePunk 4.0.0 has been released!
• The Haxe Foundation has been accepted to participate in the community track program at this years Hong Kong Open Source Conference 2018!
• Where is Haxe heading?
• Looks like Haxe might be getting an OCaml backend, with two projects having been created since this announcement, haxe_in_haxe and ml2hx.
• Haxe-in-Haxe notes and discussion.
• Evgeniy Chetvertak shares his thoughts and experience switching from Flash to Haxe in the article unchain game development.

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!.
• $200 Bounty to work on the VSCode Haxe-JSX extension.
• Docler Holding are looking for a Haxe Client Developer!
• GameSys is hiring a Haxe Game Developer to joing them in London.
• Add an available job involving Haxe.

Videos

• Matthew Wallace’s first Haxe by Example is available for Patreons - First Program.

Code Examples

• Functional Programming: ML-Style Parse Tree Evaluation.
• 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

• The editor for Andrei’s particle system is almost done!
• hxDaedalus game/pathfinding engine has been updated to include Kha and Heaps example use.
  • Kha: basic, path around objects, path using bitmap, path in maze.
  • Heaps: basic, path around objects, path using bitmap, path in maze..
• Kha implementations of post processing, blur, gaussian blur, colour quantization and more have been released, also see the interactive demo.

Some Library Releases

• swiftsuspenders 0.2.3
• robotlegs 0.4.6
• app 0.0.10
• HaxePunk 4.0.0
• sparkler 0.0.2
• travix 0.10.5
• openfl 7.1.1
• bind 0.4.1
• HaxePunkTmx 4.0.0

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

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

• {platform}.Syntax modules

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

Take it easy everyone and have a good week!