FrancisStokes

Reading these old Linus exchanges always has me in two minds. On the one hand, it's great to peer into the mind of a genius and see the thought process, but on the other - and in light of his stepping back after recognising his own highly unprofessional behaviour over the years - I wonder if we should repost and idolise these emails.

Are people - especially young and impressionable developers - able to separate the two sides of the coin, or does it serve to plant a seed of normalisation for this kind of communication?

construct-js uses DataView under the hood. I wrote construct-js to ease working with binary data by allowing you to name and reference sections, and handle things like endianess easily in one place. With a DataView, I still need to calculate offsets into a structure manually, whereas construct-js has .getOffset(name) and .getDeepOffset(path). If performance is key however, use the lowest level of course.