ROOT has been making progress with regards to one of the points addressed in the post. Regarding needing a special program to view an HDF5 file, root has developed a JavaScript viewer which can display data and stored plots and graphs. It&#x27;s pretty cool, HDF5 could do something similar if it doesn&#x27;t already exist.
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