Haxe Roundup № 422

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 2018

• 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.
• FlowPlay are sponsoring this years Haxe Summit.

News and Articles

• Haxe 4.0.0-preview.3 has been released! Featuring new function type syntax, final keyword and more!
• FlashDevelop 5.3.3 has been released.
• ArmoryPaint hits version 0.2!
• Haxe might be getting tail-call optimization.
• Looks like Haxe might be getting an OCaml backend, with two projects having been created since this announcement, haxe_in_haxe and ml2hx.
• HashLink 1.5 has been released with complete x64 support, Android and iOS support!
• Checkout Haxe.org’s new video section!
• Haxe.org now has its own merchandise shop!
• Collision Boxes & Interaction.
• Particle talk and future framework plans.

Upcoming Events & Talks

• CreativeMagic will be speaking about indie/freelance gamedev while teaching a student, using Haxe & OpenFL on April 27th. You can find out more on the community.haxe.org.
• Add an upcoming event about Haxe.

Job Offers & Bounties

• The Haxe Foundation are recruiting! They are looking for a Compiler Developer and Marketing & Communications Evangelist to join them!.
• Add an available job involving Haxe.

Videos

• Papers, Please, the short film has been released!
• Kha tutorial - EP080 - Center Position.
• Kha tutorial - EP081 - Delete Array Entity.

Code Examples

• Functional Programming: ML-Style Parse Tree Evaluation.
• Have an example you want to add? Consider contributing to the code.haxe.org cookbook.

Previews & Demos

Open Source

• Trilateral now supports curved corners.

Closed Source

• TouretteQuest protoype for 7DRL targeting HTML5 with HaxeFlixel.
• Isometric projection in HaxeFlixel.
• Swanky new health meters in kitty coliseum built with HaxePunk.

App & Game Releases

• Add a new app release that uses Haxe.

Some Library Releases

• haxicord 0.2.2
• geojson 0.9.7
• annyang_lib 0.0.1
• protobux 1.0.0
• enzyme 0.5.1
• event-types 0.2.1
• tink_hxx 0.15.2
• tink_state 0.6.2
• hxbit 1.4.0
• haxegon 0.12.1

Library Updates

• ts2hx can convert .d.ts to .hx.
• webidl now tracks source position info, enabling goto definitions pull request.
• tink_sql adds tink.sql.Query, a fully type safe? SQL query implementation? pull request.
• Haxe modular 0.10.2 released with detailed size report and interactive visualisations.

People & Projects to support

• OpenFL is creating free open source software.
• HaxeFlixel is creating an open source, cross plaform 2D game engine.
• HaxeUI is creating an open source user interface libraries.
• Will Blanton is creating HaxeFlixel tutorials.
• Lewis Lepton is creating tutorials, code and videos.
• Dan Korostelev is working on the Haxe compiler.
• August Late is creating unique 2D lighting tech.
• Mark Knol is working on Haxe and its documentation.
• Aurel Bílý is creating Haxe games and apps.
• Eric Bishton is creating the Haxe plugin for IntelliJ IDEA.
• Ilya Malanin is creating improvements for the Haxe IntelliJ IDEA plugin.
• Matthew Wallace is creating Haxe By Example tutorials.

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

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

• Discussion about missing Socket and Sys tests.
• Add support for toString metadata pull request and example.
• Haxe compiler will now use OCaml native SHA1 implementation 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!