T2b

Not sure if I will use it, but I like it. This is as close to raw bytes as it gets despite some HLL like features. This to me is real hacking, saying what the heck and writing a…

I use fasm for this very use case. It has a wonderful macro language that can be used to programmatically generate binary data on top of being able to emit instructions. It's…

Looks good. I can see this being a great intermediate format for hacks etc. Alternatively you could use some kind of fluent API to write binary data. Depends on your use case of…

I really wanted something like this when embedding serial numbers and keys in ROMs. At the time I was mostly working in C and PHP, so I was imagining something closer to a…

Interesting. I have several suggestions though: - the hex modifier does both turning mode on and off, which will be confusing in a longer file - it would be good if prefixes such…

Cool idea! Clear and nicely organized too :) Wouldn’t it be more readable and less error-prone to have separate commands for turning hex mode on and off? Such as `hex on` and…

Was the first thing that stood out to me as well. Toggled modes like this are also quite annoying when shuffling around sections of the file. Copy one hex too many and suddenly…

I think it might be more intuitive as an explicit stream modifier: hex, decimal, etc. No reason to turn anything “off”, which is actually the activation of a diffferent mode.…

Trying not to be a downer, but I wouldn't think of writing such a tool. I'd use Perl's pack or Python's struct. Of course there might be some value in something less than a full…

How does it compare to https://kaitai.io ?

Neat! I could used this for generating mixed binary/ASCII payloads for network protocol testing. One issue, though -- it seems like trailing whitespace in the input isn't handled…

Interesting. I have several suggestions though: - the hex modifier does both turning mode on and off, which will be confusing in a longer file - it would be good if prefixes such…

Length-prefixed strings would be useful for some file formats. You'd need to be able to pick a size for the length-prefix, such as u8,u16,etc. Also some ability to length-prefix…

Length-prefixed strings would be useful for some file formats. You'd need to be able to pick a size for the length-prefix, such as u8,u16,etc. Also some ability to length-prefix…

> Also some ability to length-prefix the output of a macro might be useful for tag-length-value-like formats. Exactly. TLV (tag-length-value) support is really what I expected to…

It surprised me that an octal mode wasn't available, or a binary one. But that's a minor gripe. The only other thing I could see being useful is the ability to define "structs",…

Why have hex mode toggles at all? Just use 0xa1b2, and so on. 0x... -> hex, 0... -> octal -- invent a syntax for binary.

Interesting. I have several suggestions though: - the hex modifier does both turning mode on and off, which will be confusing in a longer file - it would be good if prefixes such…

It would be great if I could specify the number of bits per field like in Elixir/Erlang/C++ bit fields and then also specify what the extra bits should be set to if the total…

Looks good. I can see this being a great intermediate format for hacks etc. Alternatively you could use some kind of fluent API to write binary data. Depends on your use case of…

Thanks! Some sort of API would be pretty cool... I'll add that if this takes off. At the very least, the function to execute T2B scripts could be exposed in a simple header.

If you use the prebuilt binaries, does the GPL apply?

How does it compare to https://kaitai.io ?

Trying not to be a downer, but I wouldn't think of writing such a tool. I'd use Perl's pack or Python's struct. Of course there might be some value in something less than a full…

How does it compare to https://kaitai.io ?

I use fasm for this very use case. It has a wonderful macro language that can be used to programmatically generate binary data on top of being able to emit instructions. It's…

There is already https://flatassembler.net/ which uses macros to emit ELF and PE headers.

For Python, suitcase (https://pypi.org/project/suitcase/) makes dealing with structured binary data easier.

Or Construct: https://construct.readthedocs.io/en/latest/