Haxe Roundup № 427

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

• Meet the HaxeFoundations new Marketing Director Phil Chertok who will be presenting Blossom.hx: Growing Haxe Together at this years Haxe Summit!
• Haxe Summit 2018 developer interview with Nicolas Cannasse.
• Haxe Summit 2018 developer interview with Thomas J. Webb from Osaka Red LLC.
• 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

• You can now leave comments on the Haxe manual and code cookbook, powered by utteranc.es.
• Version 1.0.1 of the Haxe Toolkit plugin for IntellilJ IDEA, Android Studio, and other JetBrains products has been released. IntelliJ-Haxe Release Announcement.
• The VSCode Haxe extension, Vshaxe 1.10.0 has been released using some of VSCode’s API improvements.
• Slack iOS engineer who uses Haxe to write common text format parser for various server and client platforms wonders if Haxe can add swift target?

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

• Lars Doucet’s list of various open 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

• Have an example you want to add? Consider contributing to the code.haxe.org cookbook.

Previews & Demos

Open Source

• HaxeUI virtualization of the composite listview component.

App & Game Releases

• Double Kick Heroes has been released! Everything created with Haxe & OpenFL, from GPU to servers!
  • Get it from Steam now!

Some Library Releases

• heaps 1.2.0 Fully supports Nintendo Switch, PS4, XboxOne.
• flixel-templates 2.5.1
• preloadjs 0.6.2
• highlighter 0.5.0
• html-haxe-code-highlighter 0.1.2
• castle 1.6.0
• tink_macro 0.16.5
• ctl 0.1.0
• modular 0.10.9
• uglifyjs 0.0.2
• js-objects 0.0.3
• pony 0.8.1

Library Updates

• NPM-Haxe v5 supports HaxeLib dependencies merged.
• Kha gets initial working Hashlink support merged!
• Haxe modular now supports Uglifyjs merged.

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.
• Slava Ra is creating improvements for FlashDevelop and HaxeDevelop.

Updates from the Haxe core

Current Proposals & Discussions

• Add support for complex type expressions proposal.
• 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.
• Do you have an idea to improve Haxe? Consider creating a proposal.

Core Changes

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

• Sys.systemName() should be an enum abstract issue.
• [HXCPP] Add Array.resize method merged.
• Haxe 3.4.7 package has been uploaded to both Debian unstable and the HF PPA.

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

Take it easy everyone and have a good week!