Haxe Roundup № 402

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

• Porting the BI Analytics Platform from Flex to Haxe/HTML5 case study.
• KodeGarden.org is now a HaxeUI app!.
• LibUV support for Haxe is in the works.
• Checkout the Inkscape parser for OpenFL.
• Jason O’Niel writes about what he loves about Lix, which is an alternative to HaxeLib.
• The Last Scholar, an Alakajam! game, post-mortem write-up.
• Renaine, a platformer/roguelike hybrid starring Aine, the Phoenix Knight, created with HaxeFlixel has launched on Kickstarter.
• 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.

Upcoming Events & Talks

• Add an upcoming event about Haxe.

Job Offers & Bounties

• Bayer und Preuss are looking for a student to join their team in Berlin.
• InnoGames are looking for Haxe/OpenFl developer to work on Forge of Empire.
• Mail.ru are looking for a Flash/Haxe developer to work on Armored Warfare.
• Add an available job involving Haxe.

Videos

• Kha tutorial - EP072 - 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

• 10 million bunnies in Kha using Armory.
• Rendering nodule Xml in Kha.

Closed Source

• 52+K bunnies in Kha.
• Exilium bomb pushing.

App & Game Releases

• None this week.

Some Library Releases

• jstack 2.3.7
• pixi-flump-runtime 0.4.0
• modular 0.6.0
• waud 0.9.14
• hx3compat 1.0.0
• rath 0.0.1
• nio 0.0.1
• hxbit 1.3.1
• enzyme 0.1.0
• pako 1.0.6
• hexmachina 0.30.0
• OpenGeom git
• HaxeVLC git

Framework Updates

• Modular nows supports includeFile macro and has added a sourcemap visualiser - merged.
• Close to 100% runtime converter for Spine - pull request.

Updates from the Haxe core

Current Proposals & Discussions

• Add @:native on structure fields.
• HaxeLib Replacement Stage 1.
• Add Type parameter variance for Enums.
• 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 the Spread operator.
• Do you have an idea to improve Haxe? Consider creating a proposal.

Core Changes

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

• Expr.hx now indicates quoted fields - merged.
• Abstracts unable to @:forward underlying type constructor - issue.

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

Take it easy everyone and have a good week!