Haxe Roundup № 448

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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

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

Videos

Code Examples

Previews & Demos

Open Source

  • Atomic Modding + Scripting with hscript demo for Polymod.
  • Scholae, a student project, is an example of using Haxe, ReactJS, Redux and UIKit.

Closed Source

Some 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

Core Changes

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

  • Remove TypedArray pollyfills merged.
  • Allow enums to be used as default args pull request.
  • macro new possibly coming to Haxe issue comment.
  • Allow [] for empty Map types added.
  • 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.
  • 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. 🌟
  • Update js.html externs to Aug 2018 WebIDLs merged. 🌟

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

Take it easy everyone and have a good week!