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Last time CSVs came up I was downvoted without comment for mentioning HDF5. I know the CLI tools could use some improvement, and a vim plugin would be nice, bu
by rch 10y ago
Last time CSVs came up I was downvoted without comment for mentioning HDF5.
I know the CLI tools could use some improvement, and a vim plugin would be nice, but are there other concrete objections?
- chc 10y agoI don't exactly understand why you feel compelled to mention it. Is HDF5 a kind of CSV? If so, what is there to recommend it in particular?
- dsp1234 10y agoIf the requirement is to read CSV files from a third party, then suggesting HDF5 isn't helpful. If the requirement is to write CSV files to send to a third party, then suggesting HDF5 isn't helpful. So this limits the usefulness of mentioning HDF5 to when you are both the producer and consumer of the data, but that's the easy case because then you can choose anything up to and including strongly typed binary formats.
- rch 10y agoThanks - that's fair criticism.