Haxe Roundup № 439

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

• HashLink now has its own logo!
• After Patreon deleted Armory3D’s page, Lubos Lenco has launched a dedicated funding page.
• Forget about shell scripting in Bash or Python, use Haxe!
• Dead Cells PS4 release is scheduled for August the 7th!
• Haxe, the coolest language you never heard of.
• VSHaxe 2.1.0 is now available!.

Upcoming Events & Talks

• Add an upcoming event about Haxe.

Job Offers & Bounties

• Freelancers are wanted for remote friendly, preferably French speaking, Haxe React developers job.
• The HaxeFoundation are still looking for a compiler developer to join the team.
• Lars Doucet’s list of various open bounties.
• Add an available job involving Haxe.

Videos

• Kha Tutorial - EP085 - ZUI Revisit.
• Kha Tutorial - EP086 - Follower AI.

Tutorials

• Using external Haxe libraries in Armory.

Code Examples

• A fixed ring array data structure example.
• Have an example you want to add? Consider contributing to the code.haxe.org cookbook.

Previews & Demos

Open Source

• Static method overloading gets completions support.
• A HXCPP debugger extension for VSCode.

Closed Source

• Shiro Games Darksburg preview.
• ArtsTechEngine Dialog system’s new scrolling implementation.
• Kraklings are baddies!
• Experimental hot reloading for Haxe using macro magic and code transformation.
• Apples ARKit working with Haxe.

Some Library Releases

• json2object 3.3.1
• hxnodejs-ws 5.2.1-beta
• fossil-delta 0.1.0
• tokentree 1.0.5
• immutable 1.1.2
• zerolib 0.2.3
• flixel-templates 2.5.3
• HaxeLuaFileSystem 1.0.0
• electron 2.0.4
• flixel-addons 2.7.0
• haxe-phaser3 3.10.1
• overload 0.0.5
• vshaxe 2.1.0
• Head on over to HaxeLib to checkout the latest library releases.

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.
• 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

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

• Mark gen_local vars with @:compilerGenerated commit.
• Allow qualified metadata names commit, eg @a.b.
• Add support for Intersection Types, Type1 & Type2 syntax 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!