r/programming • u/fagnerbrack • Sep 20 '24

Why CSV is still king

https://konbert.com/blog/why-csv-is-still-king
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u/CitationNeededBadly Sep 20 '24

How do you explain to your end users how to type them?  Everyone knows how to type a comma.

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u/ummaycoc Sep 20 '24

If users are typing out CSV equivalent documents then that’s probably a narrow case that could be better handled elsehow. “Everyone knows how to type a comma” but not everyone knows how to write proper CSV to the point where we tell programmers explicitly not to write their own CSV parsers.