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Why CSV is still king


In the world of data, CSV is the cockroach of file formats. It's simple, resilient, and seemingly impossible to kill off. While flashier formats have come and ...

In the early days of computing, when storage was very limited, programmers needed a simple way to store data in tables. These problems can make working with CSV files a bit of a pain, especially when dealing with large or complex datasets. A JSON variant like NDJSON could be a strong contender since it's plain text based and human-readable-ish, but it's not as widely used as CSV yet.

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