[mjibson]

I wrote one of the listed tools (github.com/mjibson/esc) and am thrilled about this proposal. I think it's great and solves all the problems in a great way.

[stevekemp]

I wrote an unlisted tool too, and I am also a fan of this proposal.

The fact that there are so many of these "embed file in binary" tools suggests that it really is a problem that could be usefully solved once, in a consistent and reliable fashion.

[BillinghamJ]

It does seem like it'd benefit from a "Must" method though - so you can use it easily to populate variables at init-time