Haxe Roundup № 447

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

• New Haxe compiler plugin: Coro, which adds generic coroutines, with built-in support for async/await and generators. [github].
• The next Haxe Summit in Seattle is scheduled for 8th-10th May 2019.
• Justo Delgado and Lars Doucet join Terry Cavanagh’s Dicey Dungeons team.
• A little before and after about profiling in Haxe.
• Renaine is going to be shown for the first time on the Nintendo Switch at the Tokyo Game Show.
• UDP multicast library has been released for HXCPP.
• Lars Doucet has released Polymod, an atomic mod system used in Defenders Quest.
• HXCPP extern *pointers.

Upcoming Events & Talks

• David Mouton will be talking at this years BDX.io about “Haxe 2018 : plus t’en mets plus t’en as”, in Bordeaux, 9th Novemeber 2018.
• Add an upcoming event about Haxe.

Job Offers & Bounties

• Bradmax is looking for Haxe developer to join them.
• 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

• Simon working on the compiler on his twitch channel.
• 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

Closed Source

• Data-streaming multiple large open game maps while using tile culling with efficient BSP tree querying.

Some Library Releases

• linc_yoga git
• mithril 1.0.3
• classname 0.1.4
• electron 2.0.9
• newgrounds 1.0.0
• utest 1.8.3
• tink_domspec 0.1.2
• tink_hxx 0.17.0
• tink_pure 0.4.0
• tink_core 1.17.1
• tink_unittest 0.5.6
• tink_testrunner 0.6.4
• tink_querystring 0.6.0
• tink_json 0.9.0
• tink_macro 0.17.0
• vscode 1.27.0
• flixel 4.5.1
• nova 0.0.1
• 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 implied field names on object literals proposal.
• 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

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

• Support inline call() and inline new C() expressions pull request.
• [wip] Adding keyValueIterator pull request.
• [java/cs] Disable implements Dynamic support merged.
• Unicode regex pull request.
• Remove TypedArray polyfill pull request.
• Change Iterator<T> spec regarding calling hasNext before next pull request.
• Use ES6 Map for haxe.ds.{*}Map classes when -D js-es >= 6 pull request.
• Completely remove support for specifying getter/setter method name in a property declaration merged.
• for loop rework chapter 1 merged.
• Disallow return null from Void functions commit.
• 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!