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A love letter to the CSV format
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Every month or so, a new blog article declaring the near demise of CSV in favor of some "obviously superior" format ( parquet, newline-delimited JSON, MessagePack records etc.) Sadly those articles often offer a very narrow and biased comparison and often fail to understand what makes CSV a seemingly unkillable staple of data serialization. It is therefore my intention, through this article, to write a love letter to this data format, often criticized for the wrong reasons, even more so when it is somehow deemed "cool" to hate on it.
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