Shameless plug here, but I wrote an article not so long ago about the use cases of bitmasking. I used JavaScript for my examples if that helps you to figure out why you would need it. I also highly recommend reading through the comments and discussion of the article. People mentioned a lot of use cases for bitmasking in general there.
Shameless plug here, but I wrote an article not so long ago about the use cases of bitmasking. I used JavaScript for my examples if that helps you to figure out why you would need it. I also highly recommend reading through the comments and discussion of the article. People mentioned a lot of use cases for bitmasking in general there.
Bitmasks: A very esoteric (and impractical) way of managing booleans
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