Haxe Roundup № 423

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

• Code-splitting Haxe’s JavaScript.
• Version 1.0.0 of the IntelliJ-Haxe plugin for IDEA, Android Studio, and other JetBrains products has been released. Checkout the announcement.
• Haxe 4.0.0-preview.3 has been released! Featuring new function type syntax, final keyword and more!
• FlashDevelop 5.3.3 has been released.
• Looks like Haxe might be getting an OCaml backend, with two projects having been created since this announcement, haxe_in_haxe and ml2hx.
• HashLink 1.5 has been released with complete x64 support, Android and iOS support!
• Checkout Haxe.org’s new video section!
• Haxe.org now has its own merchandise shop!

Upcoming Events & Talks

• CreativeMagic will be speaking about indie/freelance gamedev while teaching a student, using Haxe & OpenFL on April 27th. You can find out more on the community.haxe.org.
• 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!.
• Add an available job involving Haxe.

Code Examples

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

Previews & Demos

Open Source

• Armory gets automated light-map baking.

App & Game Releases

• Add a new app release that uses Haxe.

Some Library Releases

• tink_state 0.6.4
• typecrawler 0.6.2
• js-objects 0.0.1
• openfl-aseprite 0.1.0
• gasm-heaps 1.0.0
• gasm 1.3.0
• redux-connect 0.0.1
• tink_macro 0.16.3
• redux-thunk 0.0.1
• closure 0.3.0
• modular 0.10.3

Library Updates

• Kha’s HashLink backend gets revived, pull request.

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 a Const<T> immutable wrapper type proposal.
• 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

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

• [HashLink] Initial Thread support pull request.
• Add support for toString metadata pull request and example.

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

Take it easy everyone and have a good week!