• Trailblazing Braille Taser@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    8 months ago

    I’m terrified by this binary config file. Why?! Was he writing C and said “fuck it, memcpy”?

    Edit: I suppose it would be more like “fuck it, fprintf(f, (char*)my_config_object, sizeof(my_config_object))”

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      8 months ago

      I mean, python has pickle and people use that to store config. It’s a weird practice, and totally unsafe, but it works well enough. This wouldn’t be that different.