Haxe Roundup № 421

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 4.0.0-preview.3 has been released! Featuring new function type syntax, final keyword and more!
• Haxe 3.4.7 has been released!
• Haxe Modular 0.5.0 has been released with faster and more accurate graph processing, 10x faster sourcemap splitting and more!.
• HaxeDevelop 5.3.3 has been released!
• FlashDevelop 5.3.3 has been released.
• ArmoryPaint hits version 0.2!
• Shaders, HaxeFlixel and ShaderToy.
• Haxe might be getting tail-call optimization.
• 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!
• 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.

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!.
• 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

• Papers, Please, the short film has been released!
• Kha Tutorial - EP078 - Open URL.
• Kha Tutorial - EP079 - For Loop Draw.

Code Examples

• Functional Programming: ML-Style Parse Tree Evaluation.
• Beginner: Invoke object method by string.
• Have an example you want to add? Consider contributing to the code.haxe.org cookbook.

Previews & Demos

Open Source

• Trilateral WebGL online demo wip reworking of justTriangles.
• Quick, pre-setup for all Haxe web toolkits: Kha ( g2, g4 ), OpenFL/NME/Flash, Luxe, Heaps, Canvas, WebGL, SVG. Concept, is to develop barebones common basic needs for ‘Quickly’ exploring, extending and testing ideas.
• Hello there OpenFL, running in Unreal Engine!

Closed Source

• Finally, our female protagonist ingame - tweet
• **sigh**, Hegemone Pass.
• The underworld has their cafes as well…

App & Game Releases

• Zulth, made with OpenFL, is a new puzzle game with unique gameplay, available on Google Play and the App Store and successfully deploying to Android, iOS, HTML5, Windows, OSX and Linux.
• Go Morse Go! Arcade Edition is now available from Steam, made with HaxeFlixel.
• Where’s the truth @? by Aurel was created for Alakajam.
• InvisiMines by Laguna and Thunraz was created for Alakajam.

Some Library Releases

• gasm-openfl 1.2.0
• gasm 1.2.2
• safety 0.1.4
• enzyme 0.5.0
• hxboto 0.0.2
• modular 0.10.0
• json2object 3.1.0
• tink_hxx 0.15.0
• youtubeFramePlayer 0.1.0
• jStream 0.1.0
• awe 1.0.0
• haxegon 0.12.0
• pyhx git - tweet - Import Haxe code directly into Python!
• staticdata git - tweet - Haxe library for managing rich static data.

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.

Patreon articles

• By Matthew Wallace:
  • What is Conditional Compilation in Haxe.
  • How to use CPP specific data types and functions.
  • Numbers, Strings and Interpolation.

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

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

• {platform}.Syntax modules pull request.
• Cleanup CLI usage/help output 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!