Text is wonderful, but note that the one keyword not found in this text is 'parse'. How much extra work is generated writing parers for text that would have been so much easier to deal with if it had just been generated in a structured binary format? You still get the pleasure of designing a new wheel with every format.

This morning I had co-pilot generate a LINQPad script that fixes a lot of that.

Granted, I knew that all files are UTF-8, so I didn't need to have it "guess" what the encoding was without the BOM.

Sorry, can you clarify about Microsoft having adopted \n? This is the first time I hear of it, and I can't find anything online about it.