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This is a potential modern replacement for the 010 editor[1], which is kind of the standard hex editor for reverse engineering.

010 is great but also a bit dated[2] and clunky. I thought numerous times that a modern rewrite could be a nice project to work on. I'm happy that others tackled it! Kudos to the team.

One super cool feature would be if ImHex could read the 010 templates, but I'm not sure if that is legally OK. I'm not even sure if it would be morally OK, because I guess just as much work has gone into them as into the actual editor.

[1] https://www.sweetscape.com/

[2] It is actively maintained but looks old tech.



I like Oketa as well. Oketa, ImHex and HexFiend are all nice tools. Some folks swear by the radare suite as well. ImHex has the most features for fiddling with data structures and such.


*Okteta, like "octet" (= byte): https://apps.kde.org/okteta/


Yeah, sorry, typo, heh. I even checked before posting.




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