Haxe Roundup № 435

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

Haxe 4.0.0-preview.4 Release!

• Haxe 4.0.0-preview.4 has been released!
• HashLink 1.6 has been released!
• The HaxeLib website has had several improvements made live!
• The Haxe VSCode 2.0.0 extension has been released!

Community Updates

News and Articles

• Haxe: Cross-platform Development’s Best-kept Secret published on the Toptal Engineering Blog, resulting in some discussion on HackerNews.
• Forge of Empires has enabled their HTML5 build, made with OpenFL!
• Armory3D is out and free!
• OpenFL now has official support for Nintendo Switch and its free, once approved of course.
• Phil Chertok is planning a Haxe Feature Series, so reach out to get your story covered!
• You can now binge watch this years Haxe US Summit 2018!
• The Haxe Foundation teams adds a recurring donation option!
• Comparing Haxe, Dart and TypeScript bench.
• Help improve Haxe by filling out the Haxe User Survey!

Upcoming Events & Talks

• Nicolas Cannasse will be speaking at Game Camp France 18/19 June.
• 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.
• 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

• Haxe 4.0.0-preview.4 overview.
• Armory3D Engine Series - Getting Started.
• Armory3D Engine Series - Scripting Basics.
• Kha Tutorial - EP083 - LERP.
• Kha Tutorial - EP084 - Random Range.

Code Examples

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

Previews & Demos

Open Source

• Generating anonymous functions with the Haxe VSCode extension.
• Generating override signatures with the Haxe VSCode extension.

Some Library Releases

• hexmachina 1.0.0-alpha.3
• hlsdl 1.6.0
• hldx 1.6.0
• argan 0.9.2
• flixel 4.4.2 - Haxe 4.0.0-preview.4 compatible
• hxbit 1.4.1
• commonbox 0.1.1
• tink_await 0.4.0
• yield 1.2.0
• vscode 1.24.0
• nice 1.4.1
• tokentree 1.0.0
• hre 0.1.4
• Head on over to HaxeLib to checkout the latest library releases.

Library Updates

• [Lime] Alternatives to OpenAL issue.
• [Modular] Use Cherow for parsing instead of Acorn.js 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.
• 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

• 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

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

• Express function purity in the type system issue.
• [js] Enum as objects cleanup issue.
• Inline cleanup merged.
• 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!