Haxe Roundup № 431

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.
• Experimental Haxe REPL built on top of Node’s native REPL.
• Questions and suggestions are wanted for improving Golgi, the generic routing library.
• OpenFL console backends will be released with no license fee!.
• OpenFL 8.1 supports ActionScript 3 as a source language, now in beta.
• OpenFL Pirate Pig demo running in HTML5 using ActionScript 3 as the source language.
• sfGML is a custom Haxe compiler module that outputs code for GameMaker projects!

Upcoming Events & Talks

• Add an upcoming event about Haxe.

Job Offers & Bounties

• The HaxeFoundation are still looking for a compiler developer to join the team.
• Imagination Sydney is looking for a creative developer with Haxe experience to join them.
• 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

• When physics go wrong.
• Golden8Bits beta is being released soon, made with OpenFL.

Some Library Releases

• uglifyjs 0.0.5
• hxgenjs 0.4.1
• hxmake 0.2.3
• pony 0.8.3
• electron 2.0.0
• materialhx 0.35000.0
• bin-packing 1.0.2
• modular 0.10.10
• linc_imgui git
• openfl 8.1.0
• lime 6.3.1
• haxechain 0.1.2
• flashbite-lib-haxe 1.0.1
• haxentric 0.9.6
• lunar 0.2.0
• starling 2.3.2
• haxeui-pixijs 0.0.3
• haxeui-hxwidgets 0.0.3
• haxeui-html5 0.0.3
• haxeui-core 0.0.4

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

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

• Implement inline XML syntax to allow DSLs issue.
• Full Unicode support delayed until after Haxe 4.0 comment.
• Allow qualified metadata names commit, eg @a.b.
• enum abstract syntax merged.
• extern field syntax merged.
• Improve display handling 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!