should I make a thread detailing all the reasons you should take an oath to never use CSV, especially in combination with Excel, on pain of death?
@Rovine The fact that CSV exists and people keep using it is stopping alternatives from being created. It's a hazard.
@zensaiyuki Yeah, although people who use CSV would need an alternative first before they stop using it.
The alternative would also need to be something as dummy friendly as CSV, whatever new data format it's gonna take.
@Rovine the “dummy friendliness” is kiiinda the problem with CSV. it tricks novice coders into thinking it’s simple to parse and generate, resulting in 1000 broken implementations making the same mistakes over and over and over.
broken and invalid csv seems easy to “fix” when it should be scrapped.
a format as actually froutht with danger as CSV should look like dense brackets and unreadable sequences of symbols to signal that it will take some actual care.
@Rovine the things that seem simple and obvious and appear to work are just ticking timebombs waiting for someone to enter s quote mark or a carriage return in a form somewhere
@Rovine Don't care. anything at all. For my purposes I use JSONLINES, but for many other cases that is almost as bad.