Haxe Roundup № 420

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 3.4.7 has been released!
• FlashDevelop 5.3.3 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.
• How does HXCPP performance compare to C/C++.
• Papers Please short film will be released on the 24th!
• A pitch for OpenFL on Kha.
• Robert will be getting his Super NT so he will be implementing the OpenFL backend for Kha.
• Checkout and contribute to the Awesome Haxe JS repo.

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

• Preview of Armory’s upcoming getting started tutorial for Armory 0.3.
• Kha and Heaps backend in-progress previews.
• Preview of the upcoming ImGui js externs.
• Implementing armatures with textures in Kha.
• Armory now lets you simulate drunk ragdolls…

Closed Source

• Drop.os? terminal simulator?.

App & Game Releases

• Duckstazy hugh definition remake, the 2018 update is now out, available from Google Play and Facebook.

Some Library Releases

• ki-filesystem 1.2.1
• submit 0.2.0
• zame-particles 1.0.5
• jStreamAPI-extern 0.0.1
• hexmachina 0.35.0
• haxicord 0.2.1
• react-router-4 0.0.2
• HaxePunk 4.0.1
• starling 2.2.1
• lime-samples 6.2.0
• openfl 7.1.2
• lime 6.2.0
• pixijs 4.7.0

People & Projects to support

• OpenFL is creating free open source software.
• HaxeFlixel is creating an open source, cross plaform 2D game engine.
• HaxeUI is creating an open source user interface libraries.
• Will Blanton is creating HaxeFlixel tutorials.
• Lewis Lepton is creating tutorials, code and videos.
• Dan Korostelev is working on the Haxe compiler.
• August Late is creating unique 2D lighting tech.
• Mark Knol is working on Haxe and its documentation.
• Aurel Bílý is creating Haxe games and apps.
• Eric Bishton is creating the Haxe plugin for IntelliJ IDEA.
• Ilya Malanin is creating improvements for the Haxe IntelliJ IDEA plugin.
• Matthew Wallace is creating Haxe By Example tutorials.

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.

• {platform}.Syntax modules pull request.
• Cleanup CLI usage/help output pull request.
• @:structInit extends @:structInit issues fixed.

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

Take it easy everyone and have a good week!