Haxe Roundup № 410

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

• The Haxe mailing list has been retired in favor of the brand new discourse powered Haxe Community!
• WebIDL and WebAssembly support for Haxe JavaScript and Hashlink targets has been released!.
• Armory3D launches their Patreon page!
• 8 minutes of Armory video.
• Using NPM modules from Haxe article.
• An introduction to Haxe’s Abstract primitives.

Upcoming Events & Talks

• Add an upcoming event about Haxe.

Job Offers & Bounties

• Haxe developer wanted by Jefferson Wolfe to join them in London.
• Add an available job involving Haxe.

Videos

• None this week, add one for the next issue.

Code Examples

• Using Iterators as Generic Type Parameters.
• Array access of a database manager.
• Using Iterators as Generic Type Parameters.
• JavaScript inline web workers in Haxe.
• Have an example you want to add? Consider contributing to the code.haxe.org cookbook.

Previews & Demos

Open Source

• Haxe macro that loads colour schemes and use them within your code.
• PDCurses backend for HaxeUI!

Closed Source

• Albert&Zoe new colours.

App & Game Releases

• HaxBall, a real-time multiplayer Flash game ported to Haxe.
• Fluff Eaters gets into the holiday spirit with new recently released levels.

Some Library Releases

• js.browser.socketio 0.1.2
• buddy 2.8.1
• pony 0.6.2
• electron 1.2.0
• tink_lang 0.6.0
• webidl 1.0.0
• react 1.3.0
• pixi-particles 1.0.2
• quick-enums 0.1.1
• tink_macros 0.15.1
• lessie 1.1.1
• openfl 6.5.1
• lime 5.9.1
• turnwing git
• tink_anon 0.2.0
• flixel-demos 2.4.3
• flixel-templates 2.4.5
• hxmake 0.2.1

Framework Updates

• None this week, add one for the next issue.

Updates from the Haxe core

Current Proposals & Discussions

• Add stack based tuples proposal.
• Add key => value iteration syntax proposal.
• Add polymorphic this types proposal.
• Global using at declaration site proposal.
• Haxelib Replacement Stage 2.
• Add @:native on structure fields.
• Add Type parameter variance for Enums.
• Add Default values for enum parameters.
• Add Inline markup literals.
• Add Module-level functions & variables.
• 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

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

• Unicode support 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!