if i had a human readable file, that could be easier to understand

but what mariadb guys think about standards? stewart talked about protobuf (i really like this idea, but don't know how to use), what about json and yaml? i think that the main problem is parse time, maybe a jornaling in this file to avoid crash? and easy implement new features, example in json we can add a new item in object just put ", 'new item':'some value'", i don