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Any text editor in the world, even the ones that ship with the most barebones shells, can open json and xml and present their data to the user.

SQLite files require opening in a DB terminal or using special software to even get to the point where one can see what’s there at all. Further the entire internet basically natively supports XML and JSON.

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That is a good argument, however many people like some big game development company start to ship with GB of json file, at that point just use SQLite. It will be faster to query load. Also if you look at how DB such as Mongo (Not promoting them in any way), but when Maildir is used aginst Mongo for file storage, Mongo saves a lot of disk space. Again, it is about how we want to store files? NixOS is a quite a way to think about having a file system or db/store.

Outside of simple cases xml is too verbose and ugly (and in these cases usually zipped), so it's not suitable for a poor human with a plain text editor, so that doesn't give you much of a leg.

(Json has a higher threshold of complexity before it succumbs)

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