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Why shouldn't you use YAML to store eye tracking data? /s (lemmy.world)

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[–] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

True (in most contexts, probably including this one), but I think that only makes the case for SQLite stronger. What people do still care about is a good flexible, usable and reliable interface. I'm not sure how to get that with YAML.

[–] nous@programming.dev 1 points 12 hours ago

YAML is not a good format for this. But any line based or steamable format would be good enough for log data like this. Really easy to parse with any language or even directly with shell scripts. No need to even know SQL, any text processing would work fine.