Haxe Roundup 510

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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.
In case you missed it
  • Joshua Stone shares more details about his upcoming game “CyberHack” in his latest devlog vid.

Upcoming Events & Talks

Job Offers & Bounties

Product Releases & Announcements

Code Examples

Previews & Demos

Open Source

  • Haxe Checkstyle 2.6.1 has been released.
  • Hxelectron type definitions have been updated to version 7.1.6.
  • Ian Harrigan has created a new property grid component making its way into all HaxeUI backends!
  • Looks like Matt Tuttle is working on a HashLink SDL backend for HaxePunk.
  • Molekul pattern converted from Canvas to SVG rendering by Matthijs Kamstra.
  • Ian Harrigan previews an accordion component in HaxeUI which has been overhauled, fixing various issues.

Closed Source

  • Hello Lightbulb have added some moving platforms to their newer levels in “Scales, A Pangolin Story”.
  • Fedellen demos a little playtesting on iPad of Sonar Smash, and some footage from a pretty deep run.
  • Jefvel previews a walking shooting man in Heaps.
  • Jeff Ward #AdventOfCode AI player hits the last brick.
  • Some footage of the Knight galloping around the King.

Some Library Releases

Framework Updates

  • Nothing new this week.
In case you missed it

People & Projects to support

  • Andy Li is working around the Haxe ecosystem: CI, packaging, docs and learning materials.
  • 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

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

  • Better JavaScript debugging experience discussion.
In case you missed it
  • Soft Deprecation of Std.is merged.
  • override should not be allowed on static methods issue.

You can get started using the latest features by downloading a nightly build of Haxe and see the impact the latest changes have on each target by browsing the benchmarks site.

Take it easy everyone and have a good week!