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minus-squareTrailblazing Braille Taser@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up12·edit-24 months agoI’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))”
minus-squareTroy@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·4 months agoI 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.
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))”
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.