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

News and Articles

In case you missed it Vshaxe 2.18.0 has been released!

has been released! Devlog #11 : More Checkboxes for SonarSmash’s submission to Apple.

: More Checkboxes for SonarSmash’s submission to Apple. Ratalaika Games are working on console ports of Stencyl game engine. With more news coming soon!

GamesFromScratch has written and recorded some details & opinions about the future of the open source Blender powered Armory3D game engine.

Videos & Music

In case you missed it A little trailer of the Scales: a Pangolin Story by Hello Lightbulb.

Upcoming Events & Talks

Osaka Red LLC are co-hosting a HaxeUp with CrashSpace taking place on April 6th in California.

HaxeUp Hamburg hosted at InnoGames will take place on 7th February 2020. Make sure to sign up!

EU Haxe Summit 2020 - Let’s meet in Linz.

Add an upcoming event about Haxe.

Job Offers & Bounties

Product Releases & Announcements

In case you missed it OverWired - a cyberpunk side-scroller game made with HaxeFlixel is available on Itch.io and Newgrounds.

Zany Faces (made with Haxe and OpenFL) by Osaka Red LLC is available on iOS and Android, available on the Amazon Appstore and Google Play.

Code Examples

'$value' (or "" + value ) is usually faster than Std.string(value) for numeric types. See dev comments.

(or ) is usually faster than for numeric types. See dev comments. Have an example you want to add? Consider contributing to the code.haxe.org cookbook.

Previews & Demos

Open Source

tink_web4hl git POC for the tink webstack on HL with Libuv.

POC for the tink webstack on HL with Libuv. hxtwig git Haxe externs for the Twig template engine.

Haxe externs for the Twig template engine. react-native-qrcode-svg by Kevin Leung.

coc-haxe is a Haxe language server extension for coc.nvim.

Matthijs Kamstra is making Creative Coding Calendar out of his previous creative coding experiments.

Juriën Meerlo did some quadtree collision detection learning over the weekend and has released a demo using Kha to visualise everything.

Closed Source

Some Library Releases

Nothing this week.

People & Projects to support

Current Proposals & Discussions

Core Changes

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

Low level asynchronous IO API pull request.

You can get started using the latest features by downloading a nightly build of Haxe and see the impact the latest changes have on each target by browsing the benchmarks site.

Take it easy everyone and have a good week!