Haxe Roundup № 433

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

• You can now binge watch this years Haxe US Summit 2018!
• Help improve Haxe by filling out the Haxe User Survey!
• The Haxe Foundation teams adds a recurring donation option!
• FlowPlay’s Vegas World Haxe Conversion Case Study.
• Hugh Sanderson has written docs for the HXCPP target.!
• How porting Defenders Quest: Valley of the Forgotten DX to the PSVita improved performance everywhere else.
• Send Lars Doucet some screenshots of projects made with Lime or OpenFL, to be used in an upcoming showcase!
• sfGML is a custom Haxe compiler module that outputs code for GameMaker projects!
• Jeff announces tools for working with Haxe and GraphQL.
• Comparing Haxe, Dart and TypeScript bench.
• Find how to get HaxeFlixel and OpenFL 8.x on a Raspberry Pi running Stretch [Updated].
• Videoplayer package 1.3.0 for Atom IDE has been released.
• The Stars at Night are Big and Bright, an Renaine update.
• The Haxecoder.com website tutorials have been retired to github.

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

Open Source

• IntelliJ IDEA Haxe plugin method creation preview.
• VSCode Haxe plugin “Typing is overrated, theres this neat thing called postfix completion”.
• Haxe GraphQL parser and type builder used by WootMath.

Closed Source

• Building a revamped site in Haxe and Kha instead of HTML5 and CSS3.

Some Library Releases

• babylon 3.2.0
• hxfsm 1.0.1
• vscode 1.23.0
• html-inline 0.1.0
• stdlib 2.2.2
• refactor 4.1.0
• nodegen 2.0.0
• jslibs 1.2.1
• HtmlParser 3.3.1
• hant 3.7.2
• codegen 1.6.0
• hxmake 0.2.4
• munit 2.2.3
• format-sf git
• haxe-ga 0.5.4
• buw 0.8.2
• hxnodejs-ws 5.2.0
• modular 0.10.14
• closure 0.3.1
• robotlegs 1.0.1
• swiftsuspenders 1.0.1

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 Intersection types 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

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

• Haxe 4 todo list for completion mode issue.
• 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.
• Deprecate private structure fields commit.
• Avoid duplicate typing when unrolling loops commit.
• Add semver version support commit.

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

Take it easy everyone and have a good week!