Time to retire the CSV?

Re:Time to retire the CSV? by munk-a on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @04:55PM (#28227015)

There is a definite demand for some import format that you can trivially edit - CSV excels at this right now and JSON isn't that bad. Binary dump formats definitely do have a time and a place but there is also a separate need for trivially human readable formats.

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Re:Time to retire the CSV? by postalrat on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @06:00PM (#28227701)

I guess my point is that CSVs or any text files aren't really "human readable". You still need some application top view them.

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Re:Time to retire the CSV? by icelancer on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @09:09PM (#28229221)

I can - and do - read a CSV by opening it in Notepad++ to view basic data. This isn't possible with a SQLite file.

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Re:Time to retire the CSV? by creata on Thursday August 19, 2021 @01:04AM (#28230519)

In some incredibly pedantic sense, sure. But the difference is that every computer comes with what a human needs to read a CSV file. That's not true of an SQLite database.

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Re:Time to retire the CSV? by atatatat on Thursday August 19, 2021 @10:46AM (#28234467)

Could it be?

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Re:Time to retire the CSV? by CRConrad on Thursday September 02, 2021 @02:09AM (#28389160)

Sure, could be. In about the same sense that it could be that every computer comes with a free and open source operating system. Could be; it's not theoretically impossible -- but...

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Re:Time to retire the CSV? by HanaShiratori on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @09:02PM (#28229169)

So what's the alternative? Good old pen and paper?

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Re:Time to retire the CSV? by vertere on Thursday August 19, 2021 @03:16AM (#28231231)

Doesn't count, you still need light to make it human-readable.

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