Haxe Roundup № 436

Welcome to the latest edition of the Haxe Roundup. Haxe is a high level, strictly typed programming language and cross-compiler.

Haxe 4.0.0-preview.4 Release!

• Haxe 4.0.0-preview.4 has been released!
• HashLink 1.6 has been released!
• The HaxeLib website has had several improvements made live!
• The Haxe VSCode 2.0.0 extension has been released!

Community Updates

News and Articles

• Future-proof: InnoGames masters the leap from Flash to HTML5 with Forge of Empires.
• Armory3D is out and free!
• Haxe: Cross-platform Development’s Best-kept Secret published on the Toptal Engineering Blog, resulting in some discussion on HackerNews.
• OpenFL now has official support for Nintendo Switch and its free, once approved of course.
• You can now binge watch this years Haxe US Summit 2018!
• Help improve Haxe by filling out the Haxe User Survey!

Upcoming Events & Talks

• Add an upcoming event about Haxe.

Past Events and Slides

• Slides from Kevin Leung’s hkoscon talk about type-safe REST API’s.

Job Offers & Bounties

• The HaxeFoundation are still looking for a compiler developer to join the team.
• 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.

Videos

• LD40 Cats are assholes timelapse.
• Armory3D Engine Series - Sound and Music.
• Armory3D Engine Series - Handling Input.
• Armory3D Engine Series - Creating Custom Nodes.

Code Examples

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

Previews & Demos

Closed Source

• SUPER Cute Alien: Advanced Warfare.
• Checkout Rotate’s latest game mode, speedruns.

Some Library Releases

• priori-fontawesome 0.2.1
• hxnodejs-redis 2.8.0-alpha
• hxnodejs-shortid 2.2.0-alpha
• commonbox 0.2.0
• utest 1.8.1
• buddy 2.8.3
• coroutine 1.0.2
• yield 1.3.0
• hxnodejs-ws 5.2.1-alpha
• hxnodejs-node-yaml 3.1.0-alpha
• Head on over to HaxeLib to checkout the latest library releases.

Game & App Releases

• Archers Defense created with HaxeFlixel is available on GameJolt.
• Rotate has been released, play it on Kongregate, Armor Games and Newsgrounds.

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.
• Lubos & contributors are creating Armory, an open source 3D game engine in Blender.

Updates from the Haxe core

Current Proposals & Discussions

• Add support for ES6 output proposal.
• 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

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

• Express function purity in the type system issue.
• Add support for Intersection Types, Type1 & Type2 syntax merged.
• Allow qualified metadata names commit, eg @a.b.
• Full Unicode support delayed until after Haxe 4.0 comment.
• extern field syntax merged.
• enum abstract syntax 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!