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I should have mentioned not to get me wrong INI still has some uses where it might actually be desirable but overall compared to other tools that can be used it is very primitive another comparison would be dcmd to the likes of zcmd/ycmd. Look at Texture Studio's script it can be noted that it is all SQLite and the only time any file functions are used is for importing/exporting and some extended functions to show some files in a folder.

But most new scripters will start with INI because they don't know any better and it is a lot easier for new scripters to be able to open their INI file in any text editor and edit it. So it's good to know INI of course but remember wise man once said "know your db".