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

News and Articles

Haxe Summit 2017 has been announced taking place in Amsterdam between September 13th and 16th at “de Roos”.

Away3D is now offically being supported by the OpenFl team.

littleBLASTplanet Ludum Dare 38 post-mortem.

The Vista Basic language server and bytecode interpreter are written in Haxe, find out more in the Vista Basic tech overview article.

Five OpenFL Extension for Android article.

Upcoming Events

Cross-platform game development with Haxe and OpenFL at SyntaxCon 2017 May 18th 2017 by Phillip Gibson.

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Job Offers & Bounties

Fishing Cactus Games are looking for several programmers to work on porting Flash games, you can find out more details in the full job posting.

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Lewis Lepton is continuing to create great Kha tutorials as well as expanding into offering music and art through Patreon.

Ilya Malanin is working to fix and improve the IntelliJ Haxe plugin.

Tutorials

Implementing infinitely scrolling 2D backgrounds with HaxeFlixel.

Code Examples

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

Previews Demos & Snippets

App and Game Releases

Grand Gin Rummy is GameDuells first ever Haxe only game release.

Jelly Blocks built with HaxeFlixel available from itch.io for Web, Windows and Android.

Shop Keeper built for 1hgj .

. littleBLASTplanet made with HaxeFlixel for LD38.

Current Proposals

Core Changes

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

Improve variable names in inline constructors - merged.

The new macro interpreter dev repo.

Intial server compilation tests.

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

Take it easy everyone and have a good week!