Haxe Roundup № 429

by Skial Bainn editted on Thursday 26th April 2018

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 ith Adam Breece.
Haxe Summit 2018 developer interview ith Joshua Granick.
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.
Haxe-continuation and protoc-gen-haxe are in need of new maintainers.

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

Proletariat Inc are looking for a Senior Gameplay Engineer to help them build their upcoming multiplayer game.
Lars Doucet’s list of various open bounties.
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

Add a preview or demo of a project you are working on that involves Haxe.

Some Ludum Dare 41 games

Some Library Releases

Library Updates

[webpack-haxe-loader] Modular update & CI tests merged.
[ts2hx] Add return type declarations for Haxe 4 merged.
[ts2hx] Added support for newest typescript 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 inlining functions at call location proposal.
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

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

Spring clean 2018 merged.
Fix inline recursion commit.

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

Take it easy everyone and have a good week!