I'm amazed at developers who don't grasp that you don't need to have absolutely everything under the sun in a human readable file format. This is such a textbook case...

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 6 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Even if you want it to be human readable, you don't need to include the name into every field and use balanced separators.

Any CSV variant would be an improvement already.

[–] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 2 points 17 hours ago

Even using C#'s decimal type (128bit) would be an improvement! I count 22 characters per numbers here. So a minimum of 176bit.

[–] chaospatterns@lemmy.world 6 points 18 hours ago

Yeah this isn't even human readable even when it's in YAML. What am I going to do? Read the floats and understand that the person looked left?

[–] Dultas@lemmy.world 1 points 21 hours ago

That's it everyone, back to copybooks.