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minus-squarevithigar@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up18·23 hours agoYou stated the reason yourself. Those are different values and matching in a case-insensitive manner is more work under the hood.
minus-squareramble81@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up8arrow-down3·22 hours agoWe do plenty of stuff for human consumption. Computers work for us, not the other way around. Insensitivity should be the default. It’s okay to give options. I’m not saying take that away.
minus-squarelengau@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up3·edit-217 hours ago✋ Case insensitive filesystem 👉 Case insensitive file sorting
minus-squareWordBox@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·22 hours agoHumans have to make it do the work. And that’s how Mr; DROP TABLE makes his money.
minus-squarecalcopiritus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·22 hours agoFor some reason we decided that a lot of formats written by computers and read by computers would use ASCII encoding instead of raw data. Making a json or XML deserializer case insensitive would just make it slower for almost 0 benefit.
You stated the reason yourself. Those are different values and matching in a case-insensitive manner is more work under the hood.
We do plenty of stuff for human consumption. Computers work for us, not the other way around. Insensitivity should be the default. It’s okay to give options. I’m not saying take that away.
✋ Case insensitive filesystem
👉 Case insensitive file sorting
Humans have to make it do the work. And that’s how Mr; DROP TABLE makes his money.
For some reason we decided that a lot of formats written by computers and read by computers would use ASCII encoding instead of raw data.
Making a json or XML deserializer case insensitive would just make it slower for almost 0 benefit.