Create a native CLI frontend for the file formats toolkit#454
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Instead of various Lua scripts, a single CLI tool that can handle all file formats seems more useful overall. Since the decoders would be standalone libraries, they're also easy to use in other contexts (including via the FFI). More platform APIs are required in order to actually implement the decoders. I've opted to stub everything for now as some of the primitives, like string views and memory arenas, probably are in need of a serious rework before this can happen. With what's already in place, it should however be possible to trivially extend the CLI later.
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Instead of various Lua scripts, a single CLI tool that can handle all file formats seems more useful overall. Since the decoders would be standalone libraries, they're also easy to use in other contexts (including via the FFI).
More platform APIs are required in order to actually implement the decoders. I've opted to stub everything for now as some of the primitives, like string views and memory arenas, probably are in need of a serious rework before this can happen.
With what's already in place, it should however be possible to trivially extend the CLI later.