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crumblingstatue / hexerator

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

Apache License 2.0

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Open crumblingstatue opened 2 years ago

crumblingstatue commented 2 years ago

Advantages:

Can be built without having to mess with dylibs and environment variables
Hexerator could be published to crates.io to be installable with cargo install
Better control over graphics rendering and window creation
Easier to set up CI without having to install SFML

crumblingstatue commented 2 years ago

I'm now embarking on a journey to learn winit and wgpu, so I'm not going to work on new features for a while. But I'm still accepting pull requests.

crumblingstatue commented 2 years ago

We're also going to need to pick

[ ] A font library : ab_glyph looks like a good candidate, and it's a shared dependency with egui

crumblingstatue commented 1 year ago

I have significantly less time to program than when I started this project, so I'm removing this goal from a 0.2 milestone.