Haxe Roundup № 381

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”.
• Luxe engine dev log #4 - Trajectory.
• Armory build 10 is out!
• Creating Mr. Nussbaum’s Boardwalk Challenge an educational game with Haxe.
• Hegemone Pass - Challenge Gates and more!

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.

Past Events

• The video of David Moutons DevoxxFR talk is now available to watch online.

Job Offers & Bounties

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

Video Tutorials

• HaxeFlixel tutorial - Cameras

Code Examples

• ImmutableArray<T> abstract snippet.
• Have an example you want to add? Consider contributing to the code.haxe.org cookbook.

Previews Demos & Snippets

• Checkout latest version of “fake text mode snake” created with HaxeFlixel.
• Drawing 128 shapes from a Flash animation including masks & tints in Kha.
• Lens effects in Kha.
• Haxe and HTML5 race track demo.
• Shen2D particle effects with Kha.
• Shen2D lighting effects with Kha.
• HaxePunk 4 adds rich BitmapText, colour, alignment, inline images and more.
• Battles transitions created with HaxeFlixel.
• HaxeUI component explorer.

App and Game Releases

• Fluff Eaters is available for free with no ads or no IAP for Android & iOS created OpenFL.
• CrunchDays, a puzzle game, is out for Android created With HaxeFlixel.
• Checkout the Jetstream HTML5 demo created with OpenFL.

Some Library Releases

• HexMachina 0.19.0
• jQueryExtern 3.0.0
• tink_adhoc 0.1.0
• noor 0.2.0
• hxentrails 0.0.2
• haxe-modular 0.2.0
• openfl-robotlegs-macro 0.1.1
• hxmlinstall 0.0.2
• json2object 2.3.0
• tink_testrunner 0.5.6
• flixel-templates 2.3.2
• travix 0.8.3
• image 0.1.0
• glue 0.4.0
• priori 0.7.0
• haxe-ws 1.0.3
• haxe-doctest 1.0.4
• compiletime 2.7.0
• zame-particles 1.0.3
• pixijs 4.4.3

Updates from the Haxe core

Current Proposals

• Add Type Matching.
• 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

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

• 4x speed optimization for Sha224.hx and Sha256.hx pull request.

You can get started using the latest features by downloading a nightly build of Haxe.

Take it easy everyone and have a good week!