My use-case: I'm creating a debugger front-end for a NES emulator I'm writing. Having to serialize binary data (in particular, 16KB of address space) to be consumed by elm is inefficient in about every way possible. I currently pack it into an array of 32-bit signed ints before serialization and use a port to convert that to a UInt8Array.
Also, I wrote the disassembler in typescript because I could operate on UInt8Array (again integrated via port). It would be possible in elm, but would have felt a bit hacky. ArrayBuffer would fix that! Brian On Monday, January 11, 2016 at 6:32:43 PM UTC-6, Evan wrote: > > I have been drafting Blob and ArrayBuffer APIs, but I wasn't sure who > needed them. > > What is your particular use case? > > On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 4:55 AM, John Watson <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> Can anyone tell me what the plans are for supporting binary data in elm? >> I'm thinking of a Byte (and some sort of Byte Array) type and also >> implementing Blob in HTTP responses. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Elm Discuss" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Elm Discuss" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
