A Sketch of the Biggest Idea in Software Architecture (2022)

Re:A Sketch of the Biggest Idea in Software Architecture (2022) by bazoom42 on Monday April 22, 2024 @09:28AM (#40114152)

CSV is not standardized, it might use comma or semicolon as seperator, there are different conventions for quoting and escaping, headers might be included or not.

JSON is also hierarchical which makes it appropriate for a wider range of data structures.

That said, I’m not sure there is any agreed upon standard for representing data tables in JSON, so it might not be any better for the CSV use case.

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Re:A Sketch of the Biggest Idea in Software Architecture (2022) by rusk on Monday April 22, 2024 @09:40AM (#40114255)

I think most people hold RFC-4180 to be the CSV standard, even if it’s not officially a standard. It is sufficiently parametrised to suit all variants while at the same time providing a language and structure that is portable across all.

Don’t get hung up on the fact that RFC’s aren’t officially standards. It’s a publicly accessible standard which many people fall back on as a reference, which is more than you can say for a lot of ISO standards.

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Re:A Sketch of the Biggest Idea in Software Architecture (2022) by marcosdumay on Monday April 22, 2024 @02:16PM (#40117103)

Oh, you can hold it all you want, popular implementations still break it.

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Re:A Sketch of the Biggest Idea in Software Architecture (2022) by SkyPuncher on Monday April 22, 2024 @04:54PM (#40120397)

Exactly, the files my users submit are rarely spec compliant. I have to process them properly regardless of correctness.

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