Is it preferred to save application configuration settings and user preferences as human readable text or raw binary files?

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  • config

    configuration library for JVM languages using HOCON files

  • Generally speaking, you’d use what your platform provides. For Java/JVM, use lightbend/config, on macOS use property lists.

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