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[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

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))"

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 5 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.