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People arguing about proprietary formats being supported by other applications and backups plus checksums being a solution against bitrot miss the major point:
by OtomotO 5y ago
People arguing about proprietary formats being supported by other applications and backups plus checksums being a solution against bitrot miss the major point:
Simplicity.
If "simple" text is all you need to fulfill a certain goal, just stop there.
Any system should be as complex as absolutely necessary, not a shred more.
And yes, plain text is good enough for a very many usecases.
KISS people, KISS ;)
- Kinrany 5y agoBytes are certainly simpler than Unicode.
- OtomotO 5y agoIf in the end I have to show ß or Ø or È it doesn't matter how it's encoded, but I would certainly argue for a unicode standard to be better than some proprietary format. KISS doesn't mean that you can't have nice features, it means to have nice features with meaningful complexity