[raggi]

There are real integration challenges with the "simple file approach":

  - File locking and concurrency
  - Atomic writes / moves
  - Realtime change observations

> clumsy use of regedit does have a chance of totally borking the entire system.

So does a clumsy rm -rf, which shows up in stories here far more often than stories of people breaking their registry.

Can you provide a recent reference to someone bricking their system with regedit?

[dangus]

I think you could even make the argument that nobody breaks their registry because nobody wants to mess with something so user-unfriendly. Even the developers making applications tend stick all their config in .ini files because files are easier for everyone to work with.

[garaetjjte]

Then use SQLite.

[viraptor]

That solves 1 out of the 3 issues... But at that point, why bother? The registry is a database already.