Haxe Roundup № 446

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

• UDP multicast library has been released for HXCPP.
• How to use DragonBones in HaxeFlixel.
• Restoring our History, porting Animal Crackers v2.0 from AS3 to Haxe.
• Lars Doucet has released Polymod, an atomic mod system used in Defenders Quest.
• The next Haxe Summit in Seattle is scheduled for 8th-10th May 2019.
• The proposal to add key => value iteration syntax has been accepted!
• Sublime syntax files for bat, a cat clone with syntax highlighting and git integration.
• Runnink out of Space post-mortem includes pixel art, ragdoll animations, puzzle design and a food log.
• HXCPP extern *pointers.
• Colyseus, a multiplayer game server written in NodeJS, has released a Haxe client.

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

• [Bounty] Implement outline filter for Heaps $200.
• 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

• VSHaxe 2.4.0 is available, adding code formatting support.

Closed Source

• Porting Beekyr Reloaded from AS3 to Haxe.

Some Library Releases

• Nice 2.2.3
• haxegon 0.13.0
• xmlgrammer 0.1.1
• starling 2.4.1
• formatter 1.1.0
• tokentree 1.0.11
• node-shebang 0.1.0
• xDOM 0.1.0
• tink_domspec 0.1.1
• multicast 0.0.2
• HtmlParser 3.3.2
• mithril 1.0.2
• haxedci 1.1.1
• robotlegs-macrobot 0.2.0
• vscode 1.26.0
• webgl2 1.1.0
• react-router-4 0.1.0
• electron 2.0.8
• haxe-phaser3 3.12.0
• Head on over to HaxeLib to checkout the latest library releases.

Framework Updates

• [kha] Reduce output size for Haxe 4 generated JS merged.

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.
• Add support for Backticks proposal.
• Add support for inlining functions at call location proposal.
• Add stack based tuples proposal.
• Add polymorphic this types proposal.
• 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

73~ commits have been made to Haxe compiler in the last couple of weeks.

• Completely remove support for specifying getter/setter method name in a property declaration merged.
• Unicode tests merged, one step closer to ucs2/unicode support coming to Haxe.
• Represent final on classes and fields merged.
• Add Blowfish encryption pull request.
• for loop rework chapter 1 merged.
• Disallow return null from Void functions commit.
• [hashlink] Faster String__compare commit and issue.
• Update js.html externs to Aug 2018 WebIDLs pull request.
• [js][discussion] Move standard library types to js.lib 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!