Hex editors

[Fungus]

Yes, immediate mode GUIs are all the rage these days.

So basically it sucks your battery dry for nothing in return? 

[ataradov]

So basically it sucks your battery dry for nothing in return? 

Presumed ease of programming , I guess. I'm not sold at all on that. But at the same time, most of the time it sleeps anyway, so the practical battery impact is minimal. But if more applications go that way, it might be an issue.

[jjoonathan]

Re: battery, I could see it going either way. Retained-mode branchy cleverness rules the big vendor APIs, yes, but those choices were made 30 years ago. How did they age?

[TomS_]

Maybe it depends on the exact features you want, and maybe you don't go in for the whole online thing, but I've been using the website hexed.it for a bit now and it's good as a simple and straight forward hex editor.

I believe it does work offline, although I've never tried this myself.

[tv84]

Came late to the party...

HxD can be used for most things we need a hex-editor. No fancy stuff, just what we look for in a very simple GUI.

I also use UltraEdit but only 0.5% of the times.

[Fungus]

HxD can be used for most things we need a hex-editor. No fancy stuff, just what we look for in a very simple GUI.

Yep. I use HxD on Windows. It's basic, it's fast, it searches OK.

I used a thing called "Hex Fiend" on Mac but there wasn't much to choose from (typical Mac - once you step outside very mainstream apps there's just dry desert).