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> I can see how it fills a gap

What gap is that? I can't see anything I wouldn't find in existing tools.

If all it offers is a prettifier, I'd rather it were just that.

I can't see the gap too. Objdump, otool or nm with grep is what binary explorer needs. Rather than colorizing, why not filter unneeded things or colorize needed via search highlighting? (My personal preference, ofc.)

From its very short source it seems that it simply pretty-prints headers of MachO and ELF files. No sophisticated logic involved, just hello world in rust. So it cannot be a prettifier, since it doesn't parse any output.

I am not doing binary forensics regularly but I was under the impression that there is no tool that would display all the sections of a binary, with the insurance it would not skip a part it could not interpret? Maybe there are options of objdump I am ignoring there?

Maybe: readelf -a [0]

[0] https://sourceware.org/binutils/docs/binutils/readelf.html

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