Upcoming Haxe Talks: London JavaScript Community Online Meetup and PyCon HK 2015

2015-10-10T00:00:00+08:00

This is a busy speaking year for me :) I have presented CI for Haxe projects in WWX 2015, and then a HKOSCon 2015 talk on Haxe as a transcompilation technology. I will deliver another 2 talks in this and the follow month.

London JavaScript Community Online Meetup

I’m so glad to be invited by the London JavaScript Community to deliver a talk via video stream next week. It will be an online meetup, which means everyone will be free to join without geographic constraint. My talk will target people who are interested in web development, particularly in front-end, JavaScript-related technologies. I will introduce Haxe with a focus in its JS target.

The talk will be hosted on 15th October (Thursday) at 12:30pm UK time (convert to your timezone here). Sign up in the online meetup event page if you’re interested. Don’t forget to invite your friends too ;)

PyCon HK 2015

I’m also glad to announce that my talk proposal has been accepted by PyCon HK 2015, which is the first PyCon in Hong Kong. My Haxe talk will also be introductory, but obviously will shift the focus to the Haxe Python target. I will demonstrate how to interop between Haxe and Python, to utilize the rich and solid scientific Python libraries in the modern, statically-typed Haxe language, using some simple examples of data analysis and visualization.

PyCon HK 2015 will be held on 7-8 November 2015 (Saturday-Sunday) in Hong Kong Cyberport. My talk will be on day two, 15:40 - 16:20 (schedule). Buy a ticket if you’re interested to attend.

Improving Haxe Syntax Highlighting Support of Pygments

2013-02-26T02:00:00+08:00

3 months ago I have started to rewrite the Haxe laxer in Pygments, which is a syntax highlighter written in Python, used in both Github and Bitbucket. Pygments included initial Haxe support back in 2010, but sadly is not complete. Haxers should have seen some broken highlighting like the following:

Surely it is less than optimal, so I fixed it as the following:

Looks nice? I also took the chance to include 100% Haxe 3 support (and still backward compatible for highlighting Haxe2 code), which includes Array/Map comprehension, import wildcard, macro-reification and even string interpolation! In fact I’ve tested ALL 1589 Haxe source files appeared in the source of Haxe, including the core std library of Haxe and its unit test files. So it is guaranteed to be as complete as possible, supporting all tiny Haxe features you may have never noticed (and I myself indeed learned a few tricks and even detected some typos in the Haxe std lib when running the test!).

I’ve made a pull request to Pygments, which hopefully they will merge it soon. But even when they’ve merged it, it will still take some time to let the Github guys updates their internal Pygments. But don’t be sad, the future is here: I created a Chrome extension, Pygmentx, that replace the Haxe codes on Github (and Gist) with the improved one. It only supports the normal file view at the moment, not diff view nor the previews on Gist user page at the moment. BTW, thanks Tong (a.k.a disktree) again for his chrome.extension Haxe externs ;)

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Upcoming Haxe Talks: London JavaScript Community Online Meetup and PyCon HK 2015

London JavaScript Community Online Meetup

PyCon HK 2015

Improving Haxe Syntax Highlighting Support of Pygments