Text files are very hard to efficiently parse in parallel because there are so m...

network2592 · on April 17, 2022

It depends on the format of the text, the parser for that format, the language of the parser, and many other factors. Such a broad affirmative statement that text files are inefficient is tenuous at best.

danmur · on April 17, 2022

We need some technology that turns text files into binary. To the startupmobile!

iostream24 · on April 17, 2022

Hmm sounds like a compiler

dotancohen · on April 17, 2022

Then pad fields and require them, even if the value is Null/None/Nil, and the field names too.

  USERNAME:dotancohen\0\0\0\0\0\0
  FOOBAR\0\0:\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0

This might look ugly if you open it in Notepad, but so do XML and Org mode files. However an Emacs/VIM/VsCode plugin could make this seamless for the user.

coldacid · on April 17, 2022

They might not look as pleasant as Markdown, but Org mode files still look good in a plain text editor like Notepad.