Haxe Roundup № 411

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!
• HashLink 1.4 has been released, which requires Haxe 4.0.0+GIT.
• WebIDL and WebAssembly support for Haxe JavaScript and Hashlink targets has been released!.
• Gathering Native Extensions from across the Haxe community under one place.
• Armory3D 0.1 has been released.
• Armory3D launches their Patreon page!
• Using NPM modules from Haxe.
• Swivel, SWF to MP4 converter, built with Haxe, has been open sourced!
• Haxe is a finalist for best development tool for 2018.
• Initial HashLink documentation has been released.

Upcoming Events & Talks

• Add an upcoming event about Haxe.

Job Offers & Bounties

• Gamesys are looking for a Haxe Game Developer to join them in London.
• 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.
• Have an example you want to add? Consider contributing to the code.haxe.org cookbook.

Previews & Demos

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

App & Game

• Wild West Shootout has been released onto AirConsole, built with PixiJS and Haxe.

Some LD40 Games

• HaxeFlixel community collection.
• HELIRESCUE MENS.
• Ignorance is Bliss.
• GLORIOUS INTERNET POINTS.
• For Better or For Worse.
• Cats are assholes.
• Oil Tycoon: Corruption Edition.
• Jonathan The Sorcerer.
• Hotdogs Hunger and Hand Pain.
• Lifes A Glitch.
• More Money More Problems.
• Super childcare assistant.
• Off the Rails.

Some Library Releases

• heaps 1.1.0
• openfl 6.5.3
• tink_core 1.15.3
• gasm-openfl 0.0.2
• hxfsm 0.0.4
• buddy 2.8.2
• travix 0.10.3
• tink_macro 0.15.3
• hlopenal 1.4.0
• hlsdl 1.4.0
• hldx 1.4.0
• haxeui-pdcurses 0.0.1
• haxeui-hxwidgets 0.0.1
• hxWidgets 1.0.0

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!