3sl , a Sweet Hex Viewer

[asibahi]

Celebrating 0.16.0, I was playing around the master branch for a couple of days and I wrote a little hex viewer with colors. Intro article with screenshots and the repo. It is a pretty small project with no dependencies.

I hope y’all like it.

[Slice]

Very cool!

[pachde]

So what do these colors signify? Or is this just a pretty rainbow?

[vulpesx]

They signify the whimsy of the author :3

[asibahi]

First link in the article: your hex editor should color-code bytes

[Etienne_Parmentier]

This is genius ! I want this in my vscode hex viewer now !

[WeeBull]

I like it. Is there logic to the name 3sl? Trying to think how I’d remember I had it.

[asibahi]

Arabic word for Honey.

[asibahi]

Hey. I made a few updates to this to make it even better.

You can view the changelog here: https://git.sr.ht/~asibahi/3sl/tree/v0.1.4/item/CHANGELOG.md

The biggest change is the --windows or -w flag, where you can segment the file into different sections, skipping some if needed. Here is a simple screenshot example:

There is also some --range flag to get only a section of the file, and a small way to adjust color choices (customizable via environment flags). You can find all the necessary info with --help.

[asibahi]

Yo I added —base64 flag to get the binary out in base64. For when you want to share the binary in base64 .

[asibahi]

@lalinsky no reason to add the LLM tag

[lalinsky]

I’m sorry, I was going by the commit mentioning fixes by gemini.

[asibahi]

Fair enough. I just threw the files at web Gemini to see if it found any bugs. No agents tho.

[knightpp]

There’s no -Dcpu=baseline option when building the app.

You should probably use standardOptimizeOption and standardTargetOptions.

	const mod = b.createModule(.{
		.root_source_file = b.path("src/main.zig"),
		.target = b.graph.host, // <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
		.optimize = switch (b.release_mode) { // <<<<<<<<<<<<
			.off => .Debug,
			.any, .fast => .ReleaseFast,
			.safe => .ReleaseSafe,
			.small => .ReleaseSmall,
		},
	});

[asibahi]

Feel free to send me a patch if you feel that’s important. I don’t know that the usual way to do these things is. The current setup works just fine for me.

Just added the standard options in 0.1.8.

[Devsuner]

Hello, Im a beginner with Zig, and I have a probably silly question about the code in the source .
I don’t see any code that uch as cwd.close().Is closing this kind of handle optional?

[asibahi]

My understanding is that the operating system will clean used resources up (including memory and open files) after the process exits.

[Devsuner]

Thanks, I know that