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I’ve always liked CSV. It’s a streaming friendly format so: - the sender can produce it incrementally - the receiver can begin processing it as soon as the fi
by mlhpdx 3y ago
I’ve always liked CSV. It’s a streaming friendly format so:
- the sender can produce it incrementally
- the receiver can begin processing it as soon as the first byte arrives (or, more roughly, unescaped newline)
- gzip compression works without breaking the streaming nature
Yeah, it’s a flawed interchange format. But in a closed system over HTTP it’s brilliant.