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My ambivalence exactly. The user in likes plain text for its accessibility and flexibility, but the programmer in me dislike it for its gross inefficiency. Doe
by astrobe_ 7y ago
My ambivalence exactly. The user in likes plain text for its accessibility and flexibility, but the programmer in me dislike it for its gross inefficiency.
Does some sort of general data compiler/decompiler exist? Please don't say Binary XML.
- _-___________-_ 7y agoThere are so many use-cases where the compute inefficiency of this just doesn't matter but the human efficiency of being able to read and edit the files is a huge win.
- taeric 7y agoConsider the gross inefficiency in the other direction. To simply edit done simple data, you have to have how much code and infrastructure? And how much of that is plagued by bitrot?
- astrobe_ 7y agoIt is a "scaling" problem. At small scales, yes, human time can be more valuable than computer time. At large scales, humans will sacrifice their own time to make computers work faster. The problem is with intermediate scale, where the computer takes a bit too long to do simple things.