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Interesting counterpoint. It would come down to how things net out. And it won't be stable over time. I'm still of the view that programmers systematically over
by jacques_chester 6y ago
Interesting counterpoint. It would come down to how things net out. And it won't be stable over time. I'm still of the view that programmers systematically overvalue their convenience, because it's a value/cost tradeoff that they directly experience.
- andrewflnr 6y agoFair. I do think the long term goal should be a compact binary format with equal or better tooling as plain text. Goodness knows there are enough formats and structural editors out there, so in principle we only need to standardize on one, but it seems none of them are actually quite good enough yet.
- jacques_chester 6y agoI am generally of the view that Avro is Good Enough for most things that plaintext is used for and is pretty well-supported. Arrow looks very promising for cases where fast raw data shipment is the goal.
- andrewflnr 6y agoThe tooling, though, we need the ubiquitous tooling. But that's not really a technical problem. :P Maybe when I pitch my hat in the structural editor ring I'll try to do an Avro editor.