if you could standardise a file format for a specific task what would you pick and why
DigitalJacobin @ DigitalJacobin @lemmy.ml Posts 5Comments 38Joined 2 yr. ago
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This is the kind of thing i think about all the time so i have a few.
.tar.zst
.zip
andgzip
/.gz
) and does so faster..tar
), compressing (.zst
), and (if you so choose) encrypting (.gpg
),.tar.zst
follows the Unix philosophy of "Make each program do one thing well."..tar.xz
is also very good and seems more popular (probably since it was released 6 years earlier in 2009), but, when tuned to it's maximum compression level,.tar.zst
can achieve a compression ratio pretty close to LZMA (used by.tar.xz
and.7z
) and do it faster^1.JPEG XL
/.jxl
.jpeg
,.png
,.gif
).AV1
.mp4
) and VP9^3.OpenDocument / ODF / .odt
.odt
is simply a better standard than.docx
.