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
- Haxe Summit 2017 has been announced taking place in Amsterdam between September 13th and 16th at “de Roos”.
- Franco Ponticelli has released dice.run and dicefont both using Franco’s Doom virtual DOM library.
- Exilium gets another devlog GIF update.
Upcoming Events
- Cross-platform game development with Haxe and OpenFL at SyntaxCon 2017 May 18th 2017 by Phillip Gibson.
- Add an upcoming event about Haxe.
Events Slides
- Francis Bourre has released the slides for his CodeMotion 2017 talk “My 10 Favorite HaxeLang Features”.
Job Offers & Bounties
- London OpenFL 3± month job offer at Rocabee.
- Add an available job involving Haxe.
Video Tutorials
- Kha Tutorial - EP57 - Nape Shapes.
- Kha Tutorial - EP58 - Nape Shapes Collision Fix.
Text Tutorials
- HaxeFlixel tutorial - Mouse Input.
Code Examples
- Have an example you want to add? Consider contributing to the
code.haxe.orgcookbook.
Previews Demos & Snippets
- New and awesome HaxeUI v2 website preview.
- Text mode fakery in HaxeFliel.
- Visual graph editor preview with demo.
- Timeline parsing with accurate easing and relative transforms in HaxeFlixel.
- Recreation of Roxik Sharikura performance using Haxe, OpenFL and Away3D.
- Send and create data with the GUI to the engine with ElmLang and Kha.
- Preview of YUME game engine.
- Haxe and OpenFL port of minimalcomps preview.
- WIP screenshot of a point and click horror game created with HaxeFlixel.
App and Game Releases
- PMan, the desktop media player written in Haxe running on Electron, now comes with prebuilt binaries.
- Tong releases the source to his haarp renderer.
Some Library Releases
- glue
0.1.0 - cosmos
0.5.0 - vscode
1.11.0 - haxevx
0.7.0 - robotlegs
0.4.3 - simplegui
0.9.0 - away3d
5.0.2 - starling
1.8.9 - smtpmailer
0.1.0 - asys
0.3.0 - minimalcomps
0.9.1 - flixel-templates
2.3.1 - stx_tuple
0.2.2 - tink_testrunner
0.5.3 - tink_unit
0.4.1 - tink_core
1.10.0
Framework Updates
- HaxePunk removes Flash target pull request.
- HaxePunk Rendering GC/performance optimizations merged.
formatnow supports reading HashLink files in commite57d8e2.
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
11 commits have been made to Haxe compiler in the last week.
Nothing of interest.
You can get started using the latest features by downloading a nightly build of Haxe.
Take it easy everyone and have a good week!