Haxe Roundup № 430

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

• Read about the highlights of this years Haxe U.S Summit.
• Haxe call to arms, Improving Haxe Resources.
• sfGML is a custom Haxe compiler module that outputs code for GameMaker projects!
• OpenFL console backends will be released with no license fee!.
• Renaine has finished its Kickstarter campaign with 446% of their goal.
• ArmorPaint 0.3 is out, with layers, colour-id, maps, plugins, themes, pen pressure, erase tool and a refined UI.
• Checkout all 230 games on itch.io that have been made with OpenFL.

Upcoming Events & Talks

• Add an upcoming event about Haxe.

Job Offers & Bounties

• Proletariat Inc are looking for a Senior Gameplay Engineer to help them build their upcoming multiplayer game.
• Lars Doucet’s list of various open bounties.
• Add an available job involving Haxe.

Code Examples

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

Previews & Demos

• HaxeFlixel 4.4.0 & OpenFL 8.0 running on the RaspberryPi at 50fps.
• Leveling up the material compiler in the upcoming Armory 0.4 release.

Some Library Releases

• haxe-react-native-firebase git
• haxechain git - Haxe port of naivechain, an eductional blockchain
• flashbite-lib-haxe 1.0.0
• travix 0.11.0
• tink_state 0.6.5
• flixel-tools 1.4.2
• tink_json 0.8.0
• checkstyle 2.2.2
• flixel-templates 2.5.2
• react-redux-form 0.1.0
• zigcall 1.0.0
• haxe-loader 0.8.0
• react-intl 0.1.0
• swiftsuspenders 1.0.0
• robotlegs 1.0.0
• figma 0.0.2
• hexmachina 1.0.0-alpha.2
• starling-animate-cc 0.0.1
• starling 2.3.1
• openfl 8.0.1
• lime 6.3.0
• buw 0.8.1
• classnames 0.1.2
• hlopenal 1.5.0
• hlsdl 1.5.0
• hldx 1.5.0
• pagefile git
• flixel-demos 2.6.0
• flixel-ui 2.3.0
• flixel-addons 2.6.0
• flixel 4.4.1
• (H)axe git Axe interpreter
• tink_testrunner 0.6.3

Library Updates

• [hxtelemetry] Add HashLink support pull request.

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.
• Slava Ra is creating improvements for FlashDevelop and HaxeDevelop.

Updates from the Haxe core

Current Proposals & Discussions

• Add support for inlining functions at call location proposal.
• Add stack based tuples proposal.
• Add key => value iteration syntax proposal.
• Add polymorphic this types proposal.
• Global using at declaration site proposal.
• 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.
• Do you have an idea to improve Haxe? Consider creating a proposal.

Core Changes

83 commits have been made to Haxe compiler in the last couple of week.

• Fix inline recursion commit.
• [HashLink] JIT hot reloading issue.
• Default values for basic types on dynamic targets issue.
• Full Unicode support delayed until after Haxe 4.0 comment.
• Remove eval optimizations merged.
• Allow qualified metadata names commit, eg @a.b.
• enum abstract syntax merged.
• extern field syntax merged.
• Disable Http method chaining merged.
• Fix for generic function through typedef merged.

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

Take it easy everyone and have a good week!