Haxe Roundup № 437

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 you are approved of course.
• KodeGarden updated with a new resource manager, templates, auto save and lots more!
• Haxe benchmarks show that the php7 target is now twice as fast as neko.

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

• Freelancers are wanted for remote friendly, preferably French speaking, Haxe React developers job.
• 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

• Armory3D Engine Series - Cameras & Character Controllers.
• Beta trailer for SUPER Cute Alien has been released.

Code Examples

• A fixed ring array data structure example.
• Have an example you want to add? Consider contributing to the code.haxe.org cookbook.

Previews & Demos

Open Source

• Drawing SWF’s in and using Kha.

Closed Source

• Haxe 3D visualization fun.

Some Library Releases

• Niik 1.0.2
• plumbum 0.0.0
• openfl 8.3.0
• app 0.3.1
• munit 2.3.0
• tokentree 1.0.3
• matrix-im 0.2.0
• callnest 0.1.0
• jstrace 0.1.0
• dataclass 1.2.0
• loggy 0.1.0
• tink_state 0.8.1
• hxjslogger 0.1.2
• coconut.data 0.7.0
• 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

15 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!