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> This isn't a concern for most software. It's not even a concern for the US Library of Congress, which defined SQLite as a recommended storage format for data

• nelgaard 3y ago
  But those are completely different uses of a storage format. Library of congress considers if someone a 100 years from now could write a new importer in whatever langauge/AI they might use by then. Office documents are something you send in email attachments to people you often barely know, and expect them to read it in whatever office system they have. And if the recipient uses e.g., Microsoft Word, OFD/Sqlite might not work.
  • justin66 3y ago
    It is true that it requires effort for the developers of a software program to support a given file format. Beyond that I'm not sure what your point is.
    • galangalalgol 3y ago
      Not the op, but one point would be, why did we even pick xml, when we had latex and html? Why is a relational database the right tool for a document format?
    • cxr 3y ago
      They're constrained by different requirements. The comment was clear enough: "those are completely different uses" It's not a hard concept to grasp. There is no riddle to decipher.
  • toast0 3y ago
    > Office documents are something you send in email attachments to people you often barely know, and expect them to read it in whatever office system they have. Eh, if they're not running the same office system, down to patches, you can't really expect much.