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That seems like change for change's sake. XML is fine for stuff that's machine generated. I doubt anyone is hand-editing MSIX installers.
by AlexandrB 4y ago
That seems like change for change's sake. XML is fine for stuff that's machine generated. I doubt anyone is hand-editing MSIX installers.
- LudwigNagasena 4y agoIf it is not hand-edited, why isn't it binary?
- mike_hearn 4y agoMicrosoft don't have any generically extensible binary format that they use consistently, like Google does with protobufs. Besides, XML isn't so bad. Look at the alternative: Apple went with a generic binary config format for macOS (binary plists) but then introduced an XML version anyway. As an industry we've never got any good at managing the dichotomy between efficient-for-machines binary formats and efficient-for-humans text formats.