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by outworlder 1773 days ago
There are two pieces of tech that punch way above their weight: Lua and SQLite

So many apps could have just saved to a .db file instead of coming up with their own binary format. So many others could have just embedded a tiny, easily sandboxed, Lua library and added scripting languages, rather than embedding larger ones (or worse yet, implementing their own scripts).