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   CrunkLord420 (crunklord420@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Monday, 05-May-2025 03:20:32 JST CrunkLord420
   Can you gay nulang do this?
   
   The way you'd do this before was to "compile" your binary into an object file and then link it. It was weird and ugly.
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     silverpill (silverpill@mitra.social)'s status on Monday, 05-May-2025 06:00:08 JST silverpill

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     @crunklord420 Yes, in rust you can

     let image_data = include_bytes!("image.png");
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     opal (wowaname@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 05-May-2025 11:05:17 JST opal

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     @RustyCrab @FailurePersonified @crunklord420 we get it, you think #embed is the next goto
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     Rusty Crab (rustycrab@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Monday, 05-May-2025 11:05:18 JST Rusty Crab

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     • Failure_Personified
     @wowaname @FailurePersonified @crunklord420 I had a project manager that was obsessed with having no files shipped with the binary and as a result every time you made a tiny change to any asset or dependency it would trigger a gigantic recompile and testing changes while the program was running was impossible.
     
     I have PTSD now (Past Trauma from Stupid Developer)
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     opal (wowaname@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 05-May-2025 11:05:19 JST opal

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     • Rusty Crab
     • Failure_Personified
     @FailurePersonified @RustyCrab @crunklord420 i should say underinformed rather than misguided. for desktop applications it definitely makes way more sense to refer to (replacable) locations for assets
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     Failure_Personified (failurepersonified@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Monday, 05-May-2025 11:05:20 JST Failure_Personified

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     • Rusty Crab
     @RustyCrab @wowaname @crunklord420
     Rough take
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     opal (wowaname@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 05-May-2025 11:05:20 JST opal

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     • Failure_Personified
     @FailurePersonified @RustyCrab @crunklord420 it's more a well-meaninged but misguided opinion, than it is any sort of bad take
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     Rusty Crab (rustycrab@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Monday, 05-May-2025 11:05:21 JST Rusty Crab

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     • opal
     @wowaname @crunklord420 regardless I do not think I would want to introduce giant binary blobs into my c files
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     opal (wowaname@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 05-May-2025 11:05:22 JST opal

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     • Rusty Crab
     @RustyCrab @crunklord420 you'd typically use xxd(1) before #embed got introduced into the preprocessor. and this is important to note: this is a preprocessor directive, not something in the C language itself. that means it's still kinda fuckin gay, especially considering how long it took for someone to *finally* hack this in
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     Rusty Crab (rustycrab@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Monday, 05-May-2025 11:05:23 JST Rusty Crab

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     @crunklord420 isn't there a standard utility that turns any binary file into a C byte array?
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     Rusty Crab (rustycrab@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Monday, 05-May-2025 11:05:23 JST Rusty Crab

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     @crunklord420 I misread #embed as #include wtf when did that get in the language
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     CrunkLord420 (crunklord420@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Monday, 05-May-2025 14:10:20 JST CrunkLord420

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     @wowaname @FailurePersonified @RustyCrab
     >#embed is the next goto
     so based?
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     CrunkLord420 (crunklord420@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Tuesday, 06-May-2025 04:01:29 JST CrunkLord420

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     • Rusty Crab
     • Failure_Personified
     @wowaname @FailurePersonified @RustyCrab goto is still regularly used in C to break out of nested loops and certain types of error checking. It's really not a big deal. Sometimes it just makes sense to use a goto.
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     opal (wowaname@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Tuesday, 06-May-2025 04:01:30 JST opal

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     @FailurePersonified @RustyCrab @crunklord420 goto really is a mark of shitty control flow though. it's completely unnecessary in FP and declarative languages, and furthermore it doesn't even make sense from an implementation standpoint in those. even in assembler languages you have jumps, conditional jumps, and longjumps
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     Failure_Personified (failurepersonified@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Tuesday, 06-May-2025 04:01:31 JST Failure_Personified

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     • Rusty Crab
     @crunklord420 @wowaname @RustyCrab that's what I'm thinking.
     
     If you don't have a goto, you aren't a real language.