Haxe Roundup 531

by Alexander Hohlov edited on

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

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Videos & Music

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

Job Offers & Bounties

Product Releases & Announcements

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Code Examples

Previews & Demos

Open Source

Closed Source

Some Library Releases

Framework Updates

  • None found this week.

People & Projects to support

  • Alexander Gordeyko is developing Pony, a Haxe open-cross-library.
  • 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.
  • 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

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

  • StringTools.unsafeCharAt merged.
  • Make ParserEntry.parse/parse_string methods accept grammar entry merged.
  • [hxcpp] Fix class path for extern and nativeGen classes pull request.
  • [hxcpp] Regex inconsistent behaviour issue.
  • [js/es5] Super call missing when extending 2 levels issue.
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  • The initial haxe, haxec, haxelib plan is being fleshed out. 🌟
  • Module level static declarations has been merged.
  • [draft] Allow object."field" syntax closed.
  • [draft] Proof of concept, trace rework closed.
  • Provide winget packages for Haxe issue.
  • fastCodeAt that’s actually fast closed.

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, stay safe and have a good week!