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...

[–] chaospatterns@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day 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?

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day 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 4 points 1 day ago

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

[–] Dultas@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

That's it everyone, back to copybooks.