[imtringued]

> someone were to write a decent standard and market it a bit, then I could totally see this taking off, just as TOML "standardized INI files" took off.

Why? We have xlsx for the office crowd and arrow for the HPC crowd. In no universe does anyone actually have to invent another tabular data format using delimiters.

[arp242]

Neither are a universal replacements for CSV. They're not even text formats (well, technically xlsx is if you expect the XML from the zip, but practically: no really.). The article already explains why, as the title says, "CSV is still king": it's widely used, it's simple, it's used all over the place, it's universal, it's human-readable-y.