Haxe Roundup № 378

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

• Cheap Golf’s Kickstarter 7 day campaign has successfully finished with a total of $9,475!
• Nanjizal on Haxe & Electron for Mac.
• Matthijs Kamstra has written up how to control a BBC micro:bit from NodeJS using BLE and Haxe hx-node-bbc-microbit.
• Add yourself to the very old Haxe user map.

“In my class of Artificial Intelligence for Games I let my students choose to work with Unity, JS or Haxe. They chose #Haxe ” - Jerson La Torre.

Upcoming Events

• David Mouton will speak about Haxe at Devoxx France on the 5th April.
• Cross-platform game development with Haxe and OpenFL at SyntaxCon 2017 May 18th 2017 by Phillip Gibson.
• Add an upcoming event about Haxe.

Job Offers & Bounties

• London OpenFL 3± month job offer at Rocabee.
• Add an available job involving Haxe.

Video Tutorials

• Kha Tutorial - EP56 - Intro to Nape.
• Haxe & HaxeFlixel - Keyboard Input.
• Haxe & HaxeFlixel - Sprites & Tweens.

Code Examples

• Have an example you want to add? Consider contributing to the code.haxe.org cookbook.

Previews Demos & Snippets

• DungeonHack action RPG with procedural levels.
• Armory3D Deferred renderer.
• H.E.A.D VR.
• H.E.A.D VR live performance in Vienna.
• Raspberry Pi compatible OpenFl & Html5 app.
• OpenFL project editing in VSCode on the Raspberry Pi.
• Waud Live Radio.
• Exilium named zones.

App and Game Releases

• Holobunnies: Pause Café, a HaxeFlixel game by @qbitgames has been released on Steam.
• Cursed Treasure 2 has been released for Android available on the Play Store.

Some Library Releases

• priori 0.6.0
• jstack 2.3.2
• js-virtual-dom 0.5.2
• tink_http 0.7.0
• tink_url 0.3.0
• tink_testrunner 0.4.1
• tink_querystring 0.3.0
• tink_json 0.5.0
• tink_typecrawler 0.5.0
• tink_unittest 0.3.0
• tink_streams 0.2.1
• tink_pure 0.3.0
• haxe-strings 3.0.0
• flixel-templates 2.3.0
• noriko 1.4.2
• tarantoolhaxe 0.0.2
• hxmake 0.1.3
• hxjsondef git

Framework Updates

• HaxePunk 4.0 features & cleanup.

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

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

• Extract DefaultArguments from gencommon for CSharp & Java targets - 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!