Haxe Macro Links.md

Links to Haxe Macro related tutorials and articles

• The official Haxe sources:

  • https://haxe.org/manual/macro.html
  • http://api.haxe.org/haxe/macro/
  • http://code.haxe.org/category/macros/

  Getting better all the time, this is the definitive guide though quite meaty and requires a good couple of passes before things make sense. Learn from simple examples and practicing, use the manual as a reference.

• Macronauts: Macro workshop
  https://github.com/macronauts/haxe-macro-workshop-2015
  Learning Macros by just-doing-it playground examples

• Underscorediscovery: haxe: compile time macros
  http://notes.underscorediscovery.com/haxe-compile-time-macros/
  Complex code rejection is explained in simple words. With some concrete examples of macro expressions.

• Andi Li: Everything in Haxe is an expression:
  http://blog.onthewings.net/2012/10/14/haxe-tips-everything-is-an-expression/
  This guide is a really helpful understanding that everything is an expression in haxe. This makes macros make a lot more sense for me.

• Mark Knol: custom autocompletion with macros
  http://blog.stroep.nl/2014/01/haxe-macros/
  An example of using macros to populate code for the compiler so it can code complete things that it wouldn't be able to otherwise.

• Mark Knol: conditional compilation values using macro function.
  http://blog.stroep.nl/2015/05/compiler-define-values-using-macro-functions/
  This post is about grabbing conditional compilation values and print them in the output context using a macro function. Then we can use it at runtime.

• Mark Weber: lots of simple macro snippet examples
  https://github.com/MarcWeber/haxe-macro-examples/blob/master/Macro.hx
  A simple and useful reference for getting some ideas and introduction to the concepts behind the macro code, the different macro contexts and their uses.

• Dan Korostelev writes about macros for tolerant JSON code
  http://nadako.tumblr.com/post/77106860013/using-haxe-macros-as-syntax-tolerant-position-aware
  A look at "Using haxe macros as syntax-tolerant, position-aware json parser" with example code.

• Creating a Code Profiler in Haxe Using Macros
  http://hamaluik.com/posts/creating-a-code-profiler-in-haxe-using-macros/
  Bringing in the Macro to get handy code profilertool. Has nice insights about build macros, how to inject specific code blocks.

• Haxe forum: back2dos explains how it works
  https://groups.google.com/d/msg/haxelang/jEEh1hd81_w/fEy8m42IRtUJ
  A very clear explanation on how macros exactly work. From haxe code to the macro context to the output context in a easy to follow example.

• Haxe macro: copying expressions from another Type
  http://www.kevinresol.com/2015-11-26/haxe-macro-copying-expressions-from-another-type/
  A possibly interesting use-case is that Haxe doesn’t inline your function even you marked it as inline, if you try to store the function in a variable. With this macro it copies a function body into some place.

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Links to Haxe Macro related libraries

• http://lib.haxe.org/p/tink_macro/
• http://lib.haxe.org/p/compiletime/
• .. and more http://lib.haxe.org/search/?v=macro