I wish that embedding resources in programs as const byte arrays were more common. I think that approach leads to a tightly integrated, low-overhead app, especially on platforms (not iOS) where users and third-party programs are free to do stupid things with the file system; the app either works completely or isn't there at all.
last time I checked, Microsoft has a weird restriction on their c++ compiler (they don't have a c compiler) that only allows 4k length const chars, you have to concatenate consts to get arbitrary length.
