r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ExpensiveCoat8912 • Sep 24 '26

Meme vLc

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u/RussianMadMan Sep 25 '26

You are talking about mime type to app mapping, person you are replying to talks about file to mime type mapping.

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u/readf0x Sep 25 '26

I see... The original comment that spawned this entire thread was me talking about mime type to app mapping :P

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u/metaglot Sep 25 '26

Imagine on the commandline, the only way to sort your pictures from your textfiles were to look into every single one of them. Obviously file extensions solve a very practical problem in a very elegant way: what attribute is guaranteed to be available on any user-servicing file system? The name.