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A textual language for binary data.

4 mentions on Hacker News by 3 people: 1 story, 3 comments · first 2013-02-11 · latest 2025-10-23

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  1. …complementary as an exploration and transformation tool when working with binary data formats. [1]: https://github.com/evincarofautumn/protodata
    comment by jdp · 2025-10-23 · in Kaitai Struct: declarative binary format parsing language
  2. I think these languages for generating data are really useful. There is one called Protodata ( https://github.com/evincarofautumn/protodata ) for generating binary data. From the README: "Protodata is a language for describing binary data,…
    comment by jdp · 2014-12-07 · in Show HN: Rant, a procedural text generation language
  3. …× 0x00–0x7F) would be fine too, but 21 is the smallest possible fixed-width Unicode encoding. [1]: https://github.com/evincarofautumn/protodata
    comment by evincarofautumn · 2013-09-30 · in UTF-8 – "The most elegant hack"