Haxe Roundup № 416

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 2018 has been announced which will take place in Seattle, May 3-5 2018!
• This years Haxe Summit 2018 has a great deal with the Seattle Hilton.
• The Haxe Summit team can provide invitation letters to help get a US Visa to attend this years conference.
• The bind library now has a working example of XCode/iOS code that works with Haxe, ObjC/iOS previews and finally a preview of a SwiftLang compatible header working with Haxe.
• api.haxe.org now provides documentation for several versions!
• ArmorPaint 0.1 has been released, a 3D PBR texture painting tool!
• Dragon is a Python 3 to Haxe transpiler. Even though its been abandoned, its inpressive nonetheless.

Upcoming Events & Talks

• Add an upcoming event about Haxe.

Job Offers & Bounties

• GameSys is hiring a Haxe Game Developer to joing them in London.
• Add an available job involving Haxe.

Videos

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

Code Examples

• Design patterns: Observer.
• Have an example you want to add? Consider contributing to the code.haxe.org cookbook.

Previews & Demos

Open Source

• New Bankai Release allowing up to 3 players.

Closed Source

• Kha audio position tracking.
• Using HaxeUI to create FlashDevelop plugins, see the proof-of-concept, then watch live reload in action.

App & Game

• JellyTeam have released Super Slime Arena created with HaxeFlixel onto itch.io, Humble Bundle and Steam.

Some Library Releases

• App 0.0.0 UI mobile friendly OpenFL Library
• pony 0.7.6
• exception 1.0.2
• bind 0.3.1
• ParseSpod 1.0.0
• tink_core 1.16.1
• json2object 3.0.0
• lenox 0.1.1
• whatformat 0.2.0
• hxgenjs 0.4.0
• yloader 0.0.6

Framework Updates

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

Updates from the Haxe core

Current Proposals & Discussions

• Add traits proposal.
• 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

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

• Type array access on Array<T> as Null<T> - 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!