alt Hacker NewsGo actually does https://pkg.go.dev/embed
I do think it's more painful to distribute files when you're a distributed as a single binary vs scripts, since the latter has to figure out bundling of files anyway.
But still - it does exist
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benatkin • yesterday at 8:56 PM
Embed is read-only at runtime. This proposed vfs module for Node.js is a full virtual file system.
Zip files are created in such a way that they can be a part of an executable file. (This is how self-extracting archives used to work.) Support for reading zip files is lightweight, and is present almost everywhere.
A ZIP fork embedded into the executable should be an obvious read-only VFS implementation. Bring your assets with you, even maybe build them with the standard zip utility.
It should take relatively few LOCs, provided that libzip is already linked into the executable anyway.