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it's crazy how our progenitors had the wisdom and foresight to reserve FOUR distinct delimiters for us 28-31 file/group/record/unit but webdevs are just nope we
by gfody 5y ago
it's crazy how our progenitors had the wisdom and foresight to reserve FOUR distinct delimiters for us 28-31 file/group/record/unit but webdevs are just nope we'll go with commas and crlfs and when that doesn't work we'll JSON
- cerved 5y agoah, yes, CSVs. The format famously preferred and lauded by the web development community
- elcritch 5y agoNot sure I've seen a classic Unix tool utilize \x28-\x31 by default. Ignoring standards in ascii was I'm vogue long before webdevs.
- quickthrower2 5y agoJSON is probably popular because JS was popular and it’s a subset. And being a programming language that’s is typed by humans, so those special characters would not have naturally featured. For data, if we are going to use reserved characters, maybe we just use protobuf and let the serialisation code take the strain.