> But it leads ridiculous design decisions, like "I'm going to write 8MB of source code instead of doing the portability work on my own to turn that data into a

> But it leads ridiculous design decisions, like "I'm going to write 8MB of source code instead of doing the portability work on my own to turn that data into a linkable symbol". people use scripts to do this kind of thing and never think about it again, and it's still more portable than writing a custom build step.