NeXT used a text format for Plist[0] (which Amazon’s Brazil Config looked very similar to) but was deprecated relatively early in OS X’s lifetime. All of the pl

NeXT used a text format for Plist[0] (which Amazon’s Brazil Config looked very similar to) but was deprecated relatively early in OS X’s lifetime. All of the plutils can still read it, but none of them will write it. The biggest drawback was limited number of types, imho. It seems like encoding issues were another drawback which led Apple to use XML when OS X launched. JSON want a thing yet, so XML probably looked like a good option. 0 - https://code.google.com/archive/p/networkpx/wikis/PlistSpec.wiki https://code.google.com/archive/p/networkpx/wikis/PlistSpec....