[knallfrosch]

If you strip the exchangeability from an exchange format, it is useless.

DSVs didn't work with either Google Sheets, nor vim and neither Python – I assume this is the exhaustive list of software the author would have needed support from. The question, then: If no software understands the format, what's the point?

> I first learned about these ASCII delimiters while working with .fec [Federal Election Commission] files.

And then the author instantly chose a different delimiter. Two parties and already two standards. That should have been the final red flag for this proposal.

--- Aside: CSVs have so many problems wit their data format that you have to always verify them anyway.

Germans write 5.000,24€ where an American would write $5,000.24. Date strings. URL-encoded strings. Numbers as strings. Floating numbers.

Solving the delimiter problem accomplishes nothing.