Haxe Roundup № 418

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 3.4.5 has been released. On Linux, Haxe invoked via third party app might not find the std library.
• Dead Cells is coming to the Nintendo Switch, PS4 and Xbox consoles in 2018!
• The Haxe Foundation has been accepted to participate in the community track program at this years Hong Kong Open Source Conference 2018!
• How to setup extensions with HaxeFlixel for mobile, Admob, Analytics and Google Play games.
• Find out more about Borealis Alta, the interactive northern lights experience over on the Haxe community thread.

Upcoming Events & Talks

• 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!.
• Docler Holding are looking for a Haxe Client Developer!
• GameSys is hiring a Haxe Game Developer to joing them in London.
• Add an available job involving Haxe.

Videos

• Kha Tutorial EP077 - While Loop Circle.

Code Examples

• Beginner: Invoke object method by string.
• Design patterns: Observer.
• Have an example you want to add? Consider contributing to the code.haxe.org cookbook.

Previews & Demos

Open Source

• A simple painting app created with Kha using Jasper for layout management.
• Screenshot progress of the HashLink target running on Android.

App & Game Releases

• Nothing Clicker is a clicker about nothing… made with HaxeFlixel.

Some Library Releases

• jasper git Port of Kiwi’s cassowary algorithm
• hxPaint git
• safety 0.1.2
• gotocore-hx-stablexui 1.0.0
• gotocore-hx-openfl 1.0.0
• gotocore-hx 1.0.1
• iterators 1.2.1
• coconut.vdom 0.5.0
• coconut.ui 0.7.0
• coconut.data 0.6.1
• tink_state 0.6.1
• tink_anon 0.3.1
• gasm 1.1.0
• gasm-openfl 1.0.6
• app 0.0.9
• clay 0.0.4
• sparkler 0.0.1
• bind 0.4.0 Bind can now generate a compatible interface from a Java file
• easyNet 1.0.0
• hxvm-lua git Haxe Lua bindings
• equals 1.0.2
• linc_wren 0.0.1
• linc_luajit 0.0.2
• starling 2.2.0
• openfl 7.1.0
• lime 6.1.0
• vscode 1.20.0
• lua-plugins 0.1.0

Framework Updates

• The IntelliJIDEA Haxe plugin gets alias hinting support!.

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

34 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!