GNU Poke 1.0 Released For Poking At Binary Data

[phoronix]

Phoronix: GNU Poke 1.0 Released For Poking At Binary Data

The newest GNU project seeing its first release is GNU Poke, which is being inaugurated at v1.0 after being in development for the past three years...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=GNU-Poke-1.0

[woife]

Seems like a useful project, I will try it out
For anyone interested, a quick web search shows that there is a talk and slides about the project:

https://kernel-recipes.org/en/2019/talks/gnu-poke-an-extensible-editor-for-structured-binary-data/

[uid313]

What are similar software to this?
And what is this software useful for?

What interactive programming language is used? Is it some custom DSL?
Or is it some weird thing like GNU Guile?
Or maybe it is Python?

[discordian]

Looks great, always though there s a need for a forensic hex editor like winhex

[Vistaus]

What are similar software to this?
And what is this software useful for?

What interactive programming language is used? Is it some custom DSL?
Or is it some weird thing like GNU Guile?
Or maybe it is Python?

Maybe next time you could read a topic before you reply, 'cause the person above you already posted a link with more information.

[uid313]

What are similar software to this?
And what is this software useful for?

What interactive programming language is used? Is it some custom DSL?
Or is it some weird thing like GNU Guile?
Or maybe it is Python?

It is quite novel but there exist a similar software called DataScript.
It is useful when reverse engineering.
The integrated programming language is a custom-built one (with some inspiration by ALGOL 68).
It has built-in support for binary file formats such as BMP, DWARF, ELF, ID3v1, ID3v2, LEB128 and more.

I guess it would be nice if it had support for BSON, UBJSON, Smile, CBOR, Apache Thrift, MessagePack, Protocol Buffers, Action Message Format (AMF), etc. Maybe for TIFF.

[Hi-Angel]

So, it's like a FOSS project existing for over a decade `radare2`, but without disaassmebler and all the analyzing stuff?

[stormcrow]

So, it's like a FOSS project existing for over a decade `radare2`, but without disaassmebler and all the analyzing stuff?

Hey thanks for that, I was looking for just such a program. Appreciate the pointer. Looks to be what I was looking for.

[Hi-Angel]

Hey thanks for that, I was looking for just such a program. Appreciate the pointer. Looks to be what I was looking for.

Np. radare2, although is very powerful and scriptable, but it may be awkward to use. There's a nice online book on how to use it https://radare.gitbooks.io/radare2book/content/

[pal666]

with some inspiration by ALGOL 68

it will be hard to find modern language which wasn't (directly or indirectly) inspired by algol 68