Haxe Roundup № 434

Welcome to the latest edition of the Haxe Roundup. Haxe is a high level, strictly typed programming language and cross-compiler.

Community Updates

News and Articles

• Phil Chertok and the team are planning a Haxe Feature Series, so reach out to get your story covered!
• You can now binge watch this years Haxe US Summit 2018!
• Help improve Haxe by filling out the Haxe User Survey!
• The Haxe Foundation teams adds a recurring donation option!
• Hugh Sanderson has written docs for the HXCPP target.!
• Comparing Haxe, Dart and TypeScript bench.
• OpenFL 8.2 is now available from Haxelib & NPM with beta Electron target support, checkout a preview.
• Shaylin Chetty has submitted a merge request to get Haxe syntax highlighted sourcemaps into FireFox devtools!

Upcoming Events & Talks

• Add an upcoming event about Haxe.

Job Offers & Bounties

• Matan is looking for HTML5 PixiJS devs to work on a kids math.
• The HaxeFoundation are still looking for a compiler developer to join the team.
• Imagination Sydney is looking for a creative developer with Haxe experience to join them.
• 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.

Videos :video:

• Kha tutorial - EP082 - Ease.
• What is Kha? Cross Platform Game Magic Sauce!
• ArmorPaint - An opensource PBR painting app.
• Introduction to Armory3D Game Engine.

Code Examples

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

Previews & Demos

Closed Source

• Thank you Sario… 😲
• SGTVA last man standing mode.

Some Library Releases

• haxe-babylon git
• no-spoon 0.2.0
• openfl 8.2.2
• extension-safearea 1.0.0
• extension-icloud 1.0.0
• extension-avaudiosession 1.0.0
• event-types 0.5.0
• starling 2.4.0
• react-router-4
• yloader 0.0.8
• markov-namegen 1.0.5
• jsonmod 1.1.0
• commonbox 0.1.0
• checkstyle 2.4.0
• geometrize-haxe 1.0.2
• lime 6.4.0
• js-virtual-dom 0.10.4
• coconut.vdom 0.6.0
• tink_hxx 0.16.0
• coconut.ui 0.8.0
• coconut.data 0.6.2
• away3d 5.0.6
• haxe-phaser3 3.9.0
• injector 1.0.0
• datatools 1.0.3

Library Updates

• [lix.client] Lix now supports custom haxelib servers commit.

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.
• Lubos & contributors are creating Armory, an open source 3D game engine in Blender.

Updates from the Haxe core

Current Proposals & Discussions

• [Pseudo evolution] Add support auto-numbering and auto stringing for enum abstracts proposal.
• Add support for ES6 output proposal.
• Add support for inlining functions at call location proposal.
• Add stack based tuples proposal.
• Add key => value iteration syntax proposal.
• Add polymorphic this types proposal.
• Global using at declaration site proposal.
• 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

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

• Add support for Intersection Types, Type1 & Type2 syntax merged.
• Allow @:commutative meta on non-static functions commit.
• Implement inline XML syntax to allow DSLs issue.
• Full Unicode support delayed until after Haxe 4.0 comment.
• Allow qualified metadata names commit, eg @a.b.
• enum abstract syntax merged.
• extern field syntax merged.
• Deprecate private structure fields commit.
• Add semver version support 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!