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I am not exactly a programmer. What is the .DS_Store file for?
It's for storing your DSs, obviously.
Not for buying new DSiware games?
Kind of a mac's version of desktop.ini. Remembers layouts and other metadata about a folder.
Shit like this: https://www.idownloadblog.com/2016/07/07/add-image-color-finder-folder-mac/
I learned of those files outside the context of programming. When program or file zip packages contained these random ds store files and I looked up what they are.
Turns out, it's metadata ~~caching~~ for macOS. Irrelevant and does not belong into [distributed or shared] packages.
/edit: It's been a long time ago. Looking at it again, I guess it adds folder metadata, so it could be useful when distributing to other macOS. But for other OS, it's noise. Either way, usually it's not intentionally included.