Comment by dahart
1 hour ago
ZIP isn’t an application format, it’s a container, no? You store files with any format in a .zip, and that’s what applications do - they read files with other formats out of the .zip. What are your goals; what else would you pick, and why? What are the questionable choices you refer to?
I suspect he means the choices of putting the central directory headers at the end of the file, as well as having local file headers as you read through the file, which allows for ambiguity.
Alternatively, he could mean that, for the purposes of archiving, ZIP is very far behind the state of the art (no solid compression, old algorithms, small windows, file size limits without the ZIP64 extensions, and so on, most of which are not relevant to using ZIP as a container format)