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by mikewhy 3419 days ago
Yeah I'm not totally sure what was meant by that. They're plain text, thus parsable.

Maybe they meant that browsers don't usually have access to the file system, but that's changing and also not applicable since they're using Electron and have NodeJS at their disposal.

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plain text doesn't imply parsable; natural languages, for instance.