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> Did you read the link going to a page literally titled: "Parsing JSON is a Minefield."? No, I didn't. But... why is this relevant to CSV? I think I might h

> Did you read the link going to a page literally titled: "Parsing JSON is a Minefield."? No, I didn't. But... why is this relevant to CSV? I think I might have read an article with a similar name before. And, in general, am not a big fan of JSON, but I didn't think this link contained a standard for CSV... Also, JSON has a defective grammar, with bad semantics, so, yeah, having a standard didn't save it... but it could have saved it. Not having a standard would've been even worse.

imtringued 4y ago
JSON is well defined but hard to parse. CSV is not well defined but you still have to parse and print in such a way that is compatible with every other CSV implementation otherwise what is the point? Use xlsx Spreadsheets instead, those actually work even if they are a bit bloated.