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Re:A love letter to the CSV format by d0mine on Thursday March 27, 2025 @12:01AM (#43490280)
I lived through SOAP/WSDL horror with their numerous standards and the lack of compatibility between stacks in different programming languages. Having seen abused XML, CSV formats. CSV is preferable over XML. Human-readability matters. Relative simplicity matters.

Despite JSON may also be interpreted differently by different tools, it is a good default choice for communicating between programs

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Re:A love letter to the CSV format by ElectricalUnion on Thursday March 27, 2025 @01:44AM (#43490672)
> lack of compatibility between stacks in different programming languages

Well, that sure beats OpenAPI lack of compatibility between stacks in the same programming language.

I think the fact one can't randomly concatenate strings and call it "valid XML" a huge bonus over the very common "join strings with comma and \r\n", non-rfc4180 compliant (therefore mostly unparseable without human/LLM interaction) garbage people often pretend is CSV.

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