Comment by AtlasBarfed
5 years ago
Does SQLLite have a more text-friendly storage format? This would enable Text editors to do edits/modifications, which is critical to debugging and testing and learning. Savefiles don't need the same ongoing access optimizations, or size optimizations for wire protocols, so a less efficient format that is text editor friendly would help this cause.
Also, does SQLLite have libraries in the native code for the major languages to read and write to them? XML (ugh), JSON, and YAML have managed to get decent implementations in almost all major languages.
Using a text editor to mess with a SQLite database doesn't make any sense. Do you use text editors to edit, say, MPEG media?
SQLite databases can be edited with with generic GUI and command line tools, both SQL-based and tabular editors, which are safer and more convenient than a text editor could ever be.