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Why Open Quest Format froze its file format at v0.1 while the chrome keeps changing
Open Quest Format runs two version numbers, choom. The file format was frozen at OQF1 in the first release and can only grow by bolting columns onto the end, while the TypeScript packages stay 0.x and are still allowed to break their API. This post jacks into why the two are kept apart and how the append-only rule holds the line.
Running the scanner over OQF's compact chrome: 677 tokens against 1,200 for JSON
I ran Open Quest Format's compact serialization against its own JSON output on the reference quest to see where the bytes and tokens go, and what the lean line format charges in eddies of its own, choom.