Binary files are useful, but binary files that aren't either zip, sqlite, or a media container seem pretty niche. It makes sense for model weights and media an

Binary files are useful, but binary files that aren't either zip, sqlite, or a media container seem pretty niche. It makes sense for model weights and media and opaque blobs where you don't need to load just a part of it, but I see a lot of custom binary save files that don't seem to make any sense. If it's a server, everything is probably in a database, and if it's a desktop app, eventually something is going to make an 8GB file and it's probably going to be slow unless you have indexing. People are also likely to want to incrementally update the file as well. If you're sure nobody will ever make a giant file, then VCSability is probably something someone will want.