[hootener]

I've had to write output save file formats for various projects on several occasions, and it never occurred to me to take this approach.

Thanks for sharing this, it's one of those ideas that (to me) seems so brilliant in its simplicity that I probably would've never thought of it.

Any hiccups in the day-to-day work using this approach? I'm just trying to get a better idea of the workflow since I'm very seriously considering applying it to my next project.

[mrcharles]

The biggest hiccup is almost a literal one; serializing large lua structures and then writing them to disk can take a lot of time. But this can largely be mitigated by just saving compiled lua instead of text lua.