Haxe Roundup № 377

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

• Exilium dev log update.
• New Armory builds out with improved renderer.

Upcoming Events

• David Mouton will speak about Haxe at Devoxx France this year.
• François Barbut will speak about Haxe and Cagette.net, a open source webapp for CSA / food co-ops at “les Journées du logiciel libre” in Lyon, April 2.
• Add an upcoming event about Haxe.

Job Offers & Bounties

• Add an available job involving Haxe.

Code Examples

• Change global output for all Floats for the HXCPP target.
• Have an example you want to add? Consider contributing to the code.haxe.org cookbook.

Previews Demos & Snippets

• Exilium “corrupt” boss.
• Armory global illumination.
• Point and click adventure.
• Haxe, NodeJs and Microbit picture.

App and Game Releases

• Open Source Media player.
• Magnet Man Adventures made with HaxeFlixel currently in alpha.

Some Library Releases

• sconepunk 0.0.4
• sconelib 0.0.2
• HaxePunk 2.6.1
• waud 0.9.9
• lime 4.0.2
• lime-samples 4.0.1
• nme 5.7.1
• json2object 2.2.3
• blitting 0.9.1
• hexmachina 0.18.0

Updates from the Haxe core

Current Proposals

• Add Macro method forwarding.
• Add Generator Expressions.
• Support Inline XML.
• Add Union Types.
• Add Arrow functions.
• Add the Spread operator.
• Do you have an idea to improve Haxe? Consider creating a proposal.

Core Changes

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

• Ocaml TryCatchWrapper available for all target generators - merged.
• Allow TOptional(null) and generate monomorphs - open.
• Use native arrays for dynamic function invocation for the CS and Java targets - merged.
• Split gencommon - merged.
• Use Ocamlfind - merged.
• Rework Enum to Class generation for CS target - 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!