Haxe Roundup № 428

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 Justin Donaldson .
• Haxe Summit 2018 developer interview with Francis Bourre.
• Haxe Summit 2018 developer interview with Andy Li.
• 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

• HaxeFlixel Financial Summary for 02/16 - 04/18.
• Quick Update & News from Lewis Lepton on the state of Haxe, Kha and more.
• A simple programming language virtual machine implemented in Haxe based on Terence Parr’s tutorial.
• 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.

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

• Improved HaxeUI composite listview with smooth scrolling and inertia.
• Haxe logo and text as svg path data rendered with Trilateral Poly2trihx.
• Checkout the release of HaxeFlixel Textbox.

Closed Source

• Deadcells running on the Nintendo Switch!?
• ArtsTech static and mutli-sided sprite objects.
• Sliding selector and testing sound spectrum with OpenFL/HTML.

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

• checkstyle 2.2.0
• sparkler 0.0.3
• Textbox git
• munit 2.2.2 Fixes JS/NodeJS runners
• haxe-concurrent 1.1.0
• js-object 0.0.4
• hxmlinstall 0.0.8
• haxe-doctest 1.1.3
• json2object 3.2.0
• no-spoon 0.1.0
• format 3.4.1
• hscript 2.2.0
• vshaxe 1.11.0

Library Updates

• [hxgenjs] Fixes various DCE bugs.
• [Travix] Add initial support for HashLink target pull request.
• [Kha] Faster Krom 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

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

• Allow Bool's as const params merged.
• Add using override syntax commit - issue.
• [HashLink] Thread support merged.
• Sys.systemName() should be an enum abstract issue.
• [HXCPP] Add Array.resize method merged.

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

Take it easy everyone and have a good week!