Haxe Roundup № 445

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

• HXCPP extern *pointers.
• Colyseus, a multiplayer game server written in NodeJS, has released a Haxe client.
• PixelRacoons “Pirate Century” ported to Haxe using OpenFL.

Upcoming Events & Talks

• David Mouton will be talking at this years BDX.io about “Haxe 2018 : plus t’en mets plus t’en as”.
• Add an upcoming event about Haxe.

Job Offers & Bounties

• Justo Delgado is looking for remote work.
• 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

• Darksburg reveal trailer by Shiro Games.
• Add a video related to Haxe.

Code Examples

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

Previews & Demos

Open Source

• The VSHaxe extensions outline view works great with VSCode’s 1.26 breadcrumbs navigation.
• Armory3D long term procedural world creator tool plans are shaping up.
• HaxeUI recent refactor allows drop-downs to show ANY component.

Some Library Releases

• Starling GAF Player OpenFL git
• fossil-delta 0.1.1
• colyseus 0.9.3
• formatter 1.0.0
• tokentree 1.0.10
• zame-particles 1.1.0
• yield 1.3.2
• munit 2.3.2
• robotlegs 1.1.2
• leaflethx 1.0.0
• haxe-concurrent 1.2.0
• haxe-files 1.1.1
• dataclass 1.4.1
• Head on over to HaxeLib to checkout the latest library releases.

Game & App Releases

• The early access version of Aground is now Live on Steam! Built using OpenFL.

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

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

• Update js.html externs to Aug 2018 WebIDLs pull request.
• Disallow return null from Void functions 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!