I disagree. The cases where I would do so <i>voluntarily</i> are limited, but I&#x27;ve been forced to deal with binary data on several occasions. HDF5 is also my goto if I am in control, but sometimes you&#x27;re given data that is only in some obscure binary format.<p>Unless you were implying that such work is best done in another language. I can buy that, but I found Python to be a convenient choice for it.