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		IanCal 80 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I prefer human-readable file formats Which you might not be able to do after it’s been broken silently.

fireflash38 80 days ago [–]

That's still an issue with binary files too, and you can't even look at them to fix.

IanCal 79 days ago | [–]

Binary files are not usually edited by hand, and should not get broken without a broken parser or writer. There can be many more ways of fixing them too because it may not be as ambiguous as broken sv files.

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