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Storing everything in plain text is better. But there's no reason source code needs to be edited as plain text.
by Kinrany 5y ago
Storing everything in plain text is better. But there's no reason source code needs to be edited as plain text.
- ssivark 5y agoSerializing structured data into ASCII streams makes it very hard to then deserialize and re-structure. Plain text might be the lowest common denominator for Unix/shell tools, but we can do far far better in how structured data is exchanged, which would make it much easier to programmatically manipulate & process.
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