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0 pointseasrng3y ago0 comments

CSV only seems simple. Lots of parsing edge cases. Sqlite isn't readable by hand but it's basically bulletproof. NDJSON is literally just newline seperated JSON, it's just easier to process as a stream without a special parser.

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irrelative3y ago· 2 in thread

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.

easrngOP3y ago

(ND)JSON is simpler because people actually follow the spec, unlike with CSV.

Dylan168073y 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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