Haxe Roundup № 440

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 has decided to step down from being the HF Marketing Director.
• ArmorPaint 0.4 is out now iwth material preview, height painting and more!.
• After Patreon deleted Armory3D’s page, Lubos Lenco has launched a dedicated funding page.
• Forget about shell scripting in Bash or Python, use Haxe!

Upcoming Events & Talks

• Add an upcoming event about Haxe.

Job Offers & Bounties

• Spiele-Palast GmbH are looking for a Haxe OpenFL dev to join them in Berlin.
• 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 - EP087 - Runner AI.
• Kha Tutorial - EP088 - Creating Libraries.
• Overview of ArmorPaint 0.4.
• Devs play Super Cute Alien - Last One Standing, created with HaxeFlixel.
• Hegemone Pass Announcement Trailer.
• Spacejacked for PSVita made with HaxeFlixel.

Code Examples

• Publish to HaxeLib using Travis and GitHub releases.
• 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

• Port of jsgl.js, simple immediate-mode 3D graphics API to Haxe.

Closed Source

• Chibi Ninja Shino-kun: Treasure of Demon Tower - 80s inspired arcade ninja stealth action game.
• I Ate Two Eggs revamped titlescreen.
• I Ate Two Eggs v0.7beta is out.
• TIS-100 and 诚尚Micro interpreters written in Haxe and Heaps.

App & Game Releases

• Up the River Journey is now available from the Play Store, created with OpenFL!

Some Library Releases

• vscode 1.25.0
• dataclass 1.3.0
• hx-vector2d 0.0.1
• ventus 1.0.0
• castle 1.6.1
• electron 2.0.6-alpha
• tokentree 1.0.6
• hxprng 0.0.1
• hxnew 0.0.9
• hxnodejs-serialport 1.0.2
• atom 1.28.2
• gm2d 3.3.54
• pman 0.8.9
• callnest 0.2.0
• firetongue git - changes.
• Head on over to HaxeLib to checkout the latest library releases.

People & Projects to support

• Lubos & contributors are creating Armory, an open source 3D game engine in Blender.
• OpenFL is creating free open source software.
• HaxeUI is creating an open source user interface libraries.
• HaxeFlixel is creating an open source, cross plaform 2D game engine.
• Slava Ra is creating improvements for FlashDevelop and HaxeDevelop.
• Mark Knol is working on Haxe and its documentation.
• Dan Korostelev is working on the Haxe compiler.
• Lewis Lepton is creating tutorials, code and videos.
• Ilya Malanin is creating improvements for the Haxe IntelliJ IDEA plugin.
• Eric Bishton is creating the Haxe plugin for IntelliJ IDEA.
• Will Blanton is creating HaxeFlixel tutorials.
• Matthew Wallace is creating Haxe By Example tutorials.
• August Late is creating unique 2D lighting tech.

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

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

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