Haxe Roundup 499

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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

In case you missed it

Videos & Music

  • Add a video related to Haxe.
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Upcoming Events & Talks

Job Offers & Bounties

Product Releases

  • Ben Morris has published Kitty Catalyst, which is a incremental game where you raise and breed cats and made with HaxePunk.
  • Little Square Things is a free sokoban-like puzzle game by Gregory S. Reed, made with HaxeFlixel and is out now on Steam and itch.io. Gregory is also working on future updates for the game, like the ability to undo moves, expansion packs, a mobile release, and a level editor.
  • Dead Cells is now available on Apple TV! And it is coming to Android as well, but it will take some time!
In case you missed it
  • Coming soon: the SUSAN SUPPORTER PACK on Steam, October 14th. Including CHEAP GOLF OST + Art, Humor, Music, Videos & More Art.
  • WAHLRENNEN is a small browser game by Rat King. It was commissioned by the Centre for Political Education of Thuringia. And it’s made with Heaps. 🌟
  • Northgard is out NOW on the Nintendo Switch!

Code Examples

Previews & Demos

Open Source

Closed Source

Some Library Releases

Framework Updates

  • [hxgenjs] ES6 super call ordering fixed.

People & Projects to support

  • Kevin Leung is creating open source software libraries.
  • Robert Konrad, the Kha author, is creating Programming Toolkits.
  • 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 platform 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.
  • 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

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

  • @:inheritDoc(pack.MyType.field) pull request.
  • Inlined cost calculation for loop unrolling issue.
In case you missed it
  • Assertion failed on Abstract @:to fixed.
  • [cpp/hl] Slow performance of trace command issue.
  • [neko] (asys) Add libuv wrappers pull request.
  • [lua] Fix signed bitwise ops merged.
  • Better inlining of for loops with anonymous iterators 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!