> One of the benefits of using text is you get a huge number of tools that work with it, without the things that are par for the course these days like vendor l

> One of the benefits of using text is you get a huge number of tools that work with it, without the things that are par for the course these days like vendor lock-in. That’s true, but you can store code in flat text files even if you don’t represent or manipulate it as plain text.