Arseny Kapoulkine on Nostr: Some file formats like OBJ and PPM are delightfully simple to write, which makes them ...
Some file formats like OBJ and PPM are delightfully simple to write, which makes them great as a debugging tool since you can use an existing viewer, but if you decide to parse them the delight evaporates instantly.
(I guess that's generally true of many file formats? Some formats are painful to read *and* write though!)
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