“ I’m not going to advocate for any one successor file format here, but there are certainly a lot of contenders. The big data ecosystem gave us formats like Avr

“ I’m not going to advocate for any one successor file format here, but there are certainly a lot of contenders. The big data ecosystem gave us formats like Avro, Parquet, and Arrow that are widely used as an intermediate representation when transferring data between systems. HDF51 is widely used in the scientific computing community.” Xkcd: https://m.xkcd.com/927/ https://m.xkcd.com/927/