Crucial context: its provenance is embedded infinite canvas in Obsidian (amazing markdown-based notes app++), which supports JS but has no external datastore per se. SQLite is fantastic, but inappropriate for this use case.
Oh I read the post and a few of the other linked posts so I'm aware. If we're storing a file, we're already storing a file of some kind, so we're just talking about what kind of file it is. I'm just talking about a different set of tradeoffs one can make if that file is something other than JSON.
>If we're storing a file, we're already storing a file of some kind
It's not just a file "of some kind", it's a text file. That's one of Obsidian's key selling points - that a vault is simply a collection of text files. The "text" part is important to both Obsidian's philosophy and the majority of its users.
