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XML is human readable, but barely. I do not trust any executable other than SQLite, postgres and a few others to correctly manage state on disk without corrupti

by klysm 2y ago

XML is human readable, but barely. I do not trust any executable other than SQLite, postgres and a few others to correctly manage state on disk without corrupting it.

kaba0 2y ago
Arguably, XML’s schemas are better than SQLite’s constraints, especially in this domain.
- klysm 2y ago
  Yeah I get that SQLite technically has weak schema constraints, but it's rarely a problem in practice. I'm far more concerned about messing up with the filesystem and losing data.