Being able to include arbitrary data inside a static binary is definitely a nice side-effect of rust and golang being able to produce static binaries.

If you're interested in stuff like this for go, I've used https://github.com/GeertJohan/go.rice with great success.

[EDIT]

"feature" -> "side effect"

"rust and golang" -> "rust and golang being able to produce static binaries"

anderspitman

This looks really cool. I'd love to have a library for Rust to make this more seamless. In particular it would be nice to have a "development mode" where you just host the HTML/JS files normally while you're working on them, then flip a production switch when you're ready to have them compiled into the binary. Does go.rice have something like this?

hardwaresofton

I actually thought that's what Rouille (https://github.com/tomaka/rouille) was, which was mentioned in the blog post, but it looks like just uses the macro from that package (to include the strings), not the actual library even, since at the end of the day he opts for rocket (https://rocket.rs/)

[EDIT] - I didn't address your question about go.rice -- from what I know, it doesn't have this kind of thing built in, and I don't know that it even should... "flipping a production switch" is a pretty application-specific endeavor. Also this sounds like something you should be doing with your build tools..., can't include something in the binary at runtime. Maybe I misunderstood what you were asking.

To clarify, the description for go.rice is:

> go.rice is a Go package that makes working with resources such as html,js,css,images,templates, etc very easy. During development go.rice will load required files directly from disk. Upon deployment it is easy to add all resource files to a executable using the rice tool, without changing the source code for your package. go.rice provides several methods to add resources to a binary.