PREreview of Seeking community input for: mzPeak - a modern, scalable, and interoperable mass spectrometry data format for the future

This is an important development towards a more efficiently readable format. My only concern are the mentioned reference implementations. Instead of having multiple reference implementation in various programming languages. I strongly suggest only one reference implementation in a low level language like C++ or Rust with good bindings to higher level languages like Java, R and Python. As I tend to use Rust for this kind of work, due to it’s easier to use ecosystem, the PSI community should decide this by voting.

This approach would prevent that one reference implementation is abondond over time and creates a single point of failure, which has the advantage that every fix and new feature is delivered immediatly to every supported language.

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