Haxe Roundup № 452

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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

Past Events Slides

Job Offers & Bounties

Product Releases

  • Anders Nissen has “juiced up” the effects for Stoneset game. You can download the dev version from Google Play.
  • Limited Edition versions of Defender’s Quest are being made for the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita, which will be available for purchase from October 19th! 🌟

Videos

Code Examples

Previews & Demos

Open Source

Closed Source

Some Library Releases

Framework Updates

  • [kha] Kha puts HashLink on Android 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

Core Changes

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

  • Reset static inits in macros when the context is reused pull request.
  • Rework unification error printing merged.
  • Intial multithreading API for the eval target commit.
  • Move JQuery and SWFObject to HaxeLib issue. 👏
  • Add @:semantics to deal with native semantics 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!