Haxe Roundup № 400

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Welcome to the latest edition of the Haxe Roundup. Haxe is a high level, strictly typed programming language and cross-compiler.

Community Updates

Haxe Summit 2017

• Haxe Summit 2017 Party Report.
• Haxe Summit 2017 community sourced links document.

News and Articles

• Haxe 3.4.3 has been released!
• Haxe 4.0.0-preview.1 has been released!
• HashLink 1.2 has been released, compatible with Haxe 4.0.0-preview.1, with partial LibUV support.
• 10 Year Anniversary! Haxe, HXCPP and NME.
• The Haxe Foundation and Docler Holding become strategic partners.
• Developers start your engines, the race to transition your game off Flash has officially begun.
• Kha has support to compile to PS4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch backends.
• Reverse arc length parameterization article.

Upcoming Events & Talks

• Add an upcoming event about Haxe.

Job Offers & Bounties

• Add an available job involving Haxe.

Videos

• Kha tutorial - EP70 - Volume Control.
• Kha tutorial - EP71 - Depth.
• Kha tutorial - EP72 - Depth Refine.

Code Examples

• Set a GIT dependency directly in hxml with -lib LIBNAME:git:https://github.com/USER/REPO.git#BRANCH.
• Have an example you want to add? Consider contributing to the code.haxe.org cookbook.

Previews & Demos

Open Source

• Global illumination from a little game made with Armory.
• OpenLR is getting a HTML5 version thanks to OpenFL.
• Procedurally generated cities.

Closed Source

• Relay switch in action built with the Circuit Simulator.
• Like mamma said, you gotta go fast.

App & Game Releases

• rgbwiz, a #OneHourGameJam entry.

Some Library Releases

• ki-filesystem Cross-platform filesystem lib
• heaps 1.0.0
• hxcpp 3.4.188
• winrpi 1.0.0
• hxmlinstall 0.0.5
• jwt 1.3.0
• gotocore-hx 1.0.0
• gotocore-hx-nodejs 0.0.1
• pixijs 4.5.5
• jstack 2.3.5
• zlender git
• waud 0.9.13
• modular 0.5.0
• haxe-loader 0.2.1
• haxe-doctest 1.1.0
• openfl 6.1.2
• lime 5.5.0
• as3hx 1.0.5
• starling 1.8.11
• away3d 5.0.4
• away3d-samples 5.0.2
• svg 1.1.2
• tnative 1.2.1
• hexmachina 0.29.2
• tink_typecrawler 0.5.2
• tink_macro 0.14.2
• tink_anon 0.1.3
• js-virtual-dom 0.9.1
• coconut.vdom 0.4.2
• nme 6.0.58
• Console.hx 0.2.3
• yield 1.1.0
• flixel-demos 2.4.2
• promhx-unit-test 2.2.0
• byteConvert 1.0.3

Framework Updates

• Hololens support for Kha - pull request.
• Initial GLES3 pon GLView for NME - pull request.
• Fix joystick mappings, optimizations with retrocompatibility - pull request.
• Threaded cache for HXCPP, speedup by 33% - pull request.

Updates from the Haxe core

Current Proposals

• Add Default values for enum parameters
• Add Inline markup literals.
• Add Module-level functions & variables.
• Add Function type syntax.
• Add Type Matching.
• Add Macro method forwarding.
• Add Union Types.
• Add the Spread operator.
• Do you have an idea to improve Haxe? Consider creating a proposal.

Core Changes

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

• final keyword debate…? - issue.
• Better unification error messages - issue.
• Remove haxe.unit - pull request.
• Add the final keyword - pull request.
• Implement language independent source maps - issue.
• Set custom target configuration from command line - issue.
• Super flatten JS output - issue.
• Example of how to use custom OCaml coded generators with the compiler - comment.

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

Take it easy everyone and have a good week!