looks like we're live hello everyone and welcome to yet another recreational programming session with mista a-zozin let's make a little bit of an announcement and officially start the stream

"Can your stinky JavaScript do that!?" I love that quote

me on my 5th birthday: looks like we're five

Bees be like: “Looks like we’re hive”

AFAIK there are 3 advantages to the #embed directive: 1. ease of use 2. standard way to do things 3. performance: apparently the compiler does not like to parse huge-ass arrays of hex and it’s much faster to just dump the bytes from one file to another

9:00 Gimp can export images to C and it generates a .c file that is exactly this, I never tought it could have an use XD

Thanks for the content! would be curious to see you debloat android dev & explore phone sensors, cameras and all that cool stuff

I think the reason J.Blow had to export whether the data should be freed in case of a fallback to the filesystem. For instance, say we try to load the resources from the filesystem by default but if it's not found load from the executable. (Or the opposite?) Then, you can't just rely on macro as zome resources will get freed and other not.

I remember doing all this diskloading+embedding as prep for a jam game made in Go, without the embed of newer versions which then solved the usecase where, if the binary data is code, LSPs freak out and get incredibly slow really fast and slow down the compile as well. I even tried finished a hotreload whenever a png was modified on disk to reflect that in game. I also stopped using filenames directly and generated an autocomplete enum of all filepaths in the project folder, but that just made things more difficult without much payoff; for a jam where I'm the only programmer at least. It always turns out to be a bit more confusing for comfort, but seeing you breeze though it just feels so nice to watch.

Always a good time watching your sessions. I laugh so hard at the JavaScript padding 😂

The Bundle solution allows for modding as well: if folder/file use that other wise what is internally bundled

Finally a secure place to hide nsfw content

I love you, bro. You're my inspiration.

It looks like there is a callback for your loader, Raylib has you covered (I admire how quickly can Analyse api but often you miss details)

You should be able to hot reload resources in bundled mode too if you regenerate the `resources` and the `bundle` arrays. Another way could be to embed the resources in the shared library.

I have not watched the video yet but that LoadFromMemory probably could also be useful for loading thing made by the same program, like render and bake an image and use it as an icon or similar. I love commenting it is my hobby.

Yes, very useful.

1:31:10 the advantage of the bool flag is you can mix both nodes (but you can also do that with your free, you just check if the pointer is inside the static area and then skip the free)

this was very common in DOS era a game with only one .exe with all data embed on it or a game with multiple .exe and the main .exe is just a loader of them

😂 that javascript line was Awsome

I think it would be cool to use the bundled resources as a fallback do you can have your cake and eat it too.

pog

Windows NTFS actually allows you to insert any data in an "alternative page" of a file, that does not change content of the base page, and no one knows except the one who made this.

Would be cool if the linker can just load a raw segment data, so you don’t need the c-generation or #embed

Sounds exciting

So many problems would be solved if you could release a filesystem instead of a file. Then you could ship something that was … containing … everything, instead of just a regular file. Or we can all go to pre-docker days and enjoy watching a nice recreational coding session 😁😁. Not sure how containers serving GUI applications work - I’m sure it wouldn’t be that complicated once you know. But sheeeesh just having some C code is nice and ezpz

Is it possible to combine the 2 mode in one? I mean if you don't find the ressources into file system then you load it from the bundle.

Thank you so much very usefull video. Do you use evil mode in your emacs?

Hiding malware inside executable

The flexibility that it will provide in embedding data files is why I'm so excited for #embed, but unfortunately I still can't update to a C23 compiler that supports it. As it stands now I have a program that I wrote to generate a header for any data files I want to include in the binary. I took some inspiration from Microsoft in that regard, but like your solution, mine is also cross platform. However, there is one tiny quibble with your method of alternating between hot reloading and not. I include the files internally regardless of build type, but I also provide the files externally so that they can be swapped by the user as an extra customization. If they delete the resource folder, my program can just regenerate it in a standard user folder location, ~/.cache/ for instance. That's probably the reason that Jonathan Blow uses a boolean flag, although in my case the resource data is all within a specific location and I can just check if the pointer to the resource comes from the binary or from the heap and no need for a flag.

Maybe rewriting the project in rust and baking the resources will reduce the binary size. SIGNIFICANTLY

is there any way i can join your discord?

I feel like I gained 10^10000 brain cells watching each of your videos 😅. Thanks tsoding ❤

Thank you, ~ wanted to know, the binary data that most scientific communities generate(LHC etc), could easily converted to C code......take that assumption is correct

I wonder why he's mostly not freeing the memory he allocates. I haven't really seen him calling the "free" function. Why? Is it because the OS you use does it when the program stops?

around 4:35 - In C language, does the outcome of the build process depend on the specific file you designate as the target in the build command, or does it also depend on the location from which the build command is executed?

The bundler seems overcomplicated (I'm a noob). Why not use a counter and a mod to print end line after 20 prints? Only one for loop needed

Indentation size 5. You evil

А что у тебя за операционная система? Или дистрибутив, если это Линукс.

There actually exists a raylib binding for javascript...

have you ever done a sober stream bro?!

what's sad about #embed is that you can literally implement this feature with 20 lines of python to pre process the file ISO committee is where all good ideas go to die :(

Well bundling data with executable and hiding said data are different things. I expected to see something like that but with like encrypted files or something..

16:30 I guess start here

Ah yeah, the cross-platform way to ship resources with you application: files

Zip exe with password?

First.

I would use `ld -r -b binary -o foo.bar.o foo.bar` to convert the binary into an object file, which has symbols for data start, end and size. This cuts out the need of generating and parsing a C file