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crumblingstatue / hexerator

Versatile GUI hex editor focused on binary file exploration and aiding pattern recognition

https://crumblingstatue.github.io/hexerator-book/

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Scripting language exploration #23

Open crumblingstatue opened 2 years ago

crumblingstatue commented 2 years ago

Lua (current)
- Only has a single numeric type. Not the most ideal for byte manipulation.
Rhai
- Slower than Lua
- Has i64 system integer type, but other types are exposed as "custom" types, and working with them is both harder and slower than i64
Wasm (wasmtime?)
- Would probably be as fast, or even faster than Lua
- Couldn't edit/compile inside hexerator. Major disadvantage.

Ideal candidate would:

Support all rust primitives (i8, u8, i16, u16, i32, u32, i64, u64, f32, f64, etc.)
Be about as fast, or faster than Lua
Optionally, could be fed a byte slice as argument, without having to clone the data