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by irrelative 1387 days ago
Sure, could be simpler, but there's a spec and multiple implementations: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4180.html And the spec is ~5 pages.

Not sure why NDJSON is considered simpler, as json objects can be arbitrarily nested. Breaking into records is easier, but parsing is harder.
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easrng 1387 days ago
(ND)JSON is simpler because people actually follow the spec, unlike with CSV.
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Dylan16807 1387 days ago
People violate the JSON spec all the time.

And following the CSV spec is much easier than following the JSON spec. And there's only like three edge cases.

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mschuster91 1386 days ago
> And there's only like three edge cases.

Unless you involve MS Excel or, worse, MS Excel on macOS. OTOH, pitfalls are: UTF-8 BOM, comma vs semicolon, single vs double quote, multiline cell content and escaping, escaping in general...

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