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by josephg 808 days ago
Compression will make the size overhead disappear instantly.

I do see your point - I know that its less efficient, and its not the best format if you're handling it every day or using it for huge data sets. But for a quick and dirty handoff between programs its lovely. It takes ~5 lines to parse in just about any programming language. And you can do so without pulling in any extra dependencies.

Looking at the downvotes I can see that its a controversial choice. But I stand by it.