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> About needing SQLite client, it's real but it's roughly the same size as an XML parser. what I like about it being XML is I can just open it with any text to
by lentil_soup 1mo ago
> About needing SQLite client, it's real but it's roughly the same size as an XML parser.
what I like about it being XML is I can just open it with any text tool and inspect it. It's human readable so I can edit and debug it manually, no need to have a parser or an extra application just to see what's in my file
- simonask 1mo agoThat's such an unbelievably niche use case for an image file format, though. Extremely the wrong thing to optimize for.
- lentil_soup 1mo agofor the end user, potentially niche, yes. I would argue it allows for anyone to hack around with the file which is a positive in my book for development though, I'd say it's quite useful. I work in a 3D editor and having data in a binary blob is a pain as you need to use your custom serialiser if you want to inspect the data. If a file is corrupted, good luck figuring out what was there, what happened, etc