Haxe Roundup № 443

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 1.7 has been released!
• ThinQbator has launched! Rebuilt with Haxe and OpenFL.
• PixelRacoons “Pirate Century” ported to Haxe using OpenFL.
• VSHaxe 2.2.0 is available, adding Outline support.

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

• Add a video related to Haxe.

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

• Ray-casting for a roguelike light engine.
• Transpiling CitrusEngine from AS3 to Haxe using OpenFL and compiling to CPP.
• Control OpenFL custom shader uniforms via GPIO potentiometer on the Raspberry Pi. See it in action.

Some Library Releases

• yloader 0.0.10
• Nice 2.0.2
• FBPGraph 0.0.2
• munit 2.3.1
• hxmake 0.2.5
• resdb 0.2.0
• haxe-phaser3 3.11.0
• commonbox 0.4.0
• whatsappshare 1.0.0
• dvar git
• webgl2 1.0.0
• hlsdl 1.7.0
• hldx 1.7.0
• 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 Default type parameters proposal.
• Voting adjustments proposal.
• Add support for Backticks 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

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

• Disallow return null from Void functions commit.
• [html-externs] Update to work with latest WebIDL’s pull request.

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

Take it easy everyone and have a good week!