• Bradley Chatha (8/24) Jun 08 ---
• zjh (2/4) Jun 08 Thank you for your share.
• Dmitry Olshansky (5/7) Jun 09 It’s not exactly do not support, rather it’s their main feature.

Bradley Chatha <sealabjaster gmail.com> writes:

https://bradley.chatha.dev/blog/linux-speedrun-timer-dlang/post

Copied intro:

 I semi-recently played through the original Deus Ex, and 
 enjoyed my time with it so much that I felt like getting into 
 speedrunning it, which ended up with me having to create a 
 custom speedrun timer that “injects” itself into the game in 
 order to implement features such as auto-splitting and load 
 time removal.

 This article details the rough journey I went through. It’s not 
 super well structured, but I was sorely lacking resources such 
 as this when I was implementing the more complicated parts of 
 the timer, so I wanted to share my experience.

 This is basically a detailing of “baby’s first game hack” as 
 none of the techniques I’ve used here are advanced, and are 
 more basic building blocks for injecting your own stuff into 
 another process, but resources like this article were severely 
 lacking/hard to find in my experience, so I imagine this will 
 still be useful to someone.

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More specifically I love how easy D made it for me to have a 
high-level wrapper around some of the lower-level actions I had 
to perform.

Honestly this article was more of a Trojan horse to talk about D 
rather than the project itself :)

zjh <fqbqrr 163.com> writes:

On Sunday, 8 June 2025 at 23:41:50 UTC, Bradley Chatha wrote:
 https://bradley.chatha.dev/blog/linux-speedrun-timer-dlang/post

 Copied intro:


Thank you for your share.

Dmitry Olshansky <dmitry.olsh gmail.com> writes:

On Sunday, 8 June 2025 at 23:41:50 UTC, Bradley Chatha wrote:
 https://bradley.chatha.dev/blog/linux-speedrun-timer-dlang/post

 D’s raw literals do not support escape sequences.

It’s not exactly do not support, rather it’s their main feature. 
And indeed it’s handy for regex!

——
Dmitry Olshansky