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Kind of a short sighted take. Sticking special characters that (in many early editors) would be invisible complicates development and maintenance. Even tabs hav
by NBJack 2y ago
Kind of a short sighted take. Sticking special characters that (in many early editors) would be invisible complicates development and maintenance. Even tabs have a visual, albeit inconsistent (if your editor wants to align columns for you) manifestation you can work with.
Technically, XML is superior for data representation on many fronts. But likewise, it is an absolute PITA to maintain without significant editor support.
It is no accident that CSV/tabs 'won'.
- sandreas 2y agoYeah and many devs often oversee that with having separator, enclosure and escapechar specified and used, it even supports newlines in its cell values
- Miner49er 2y agoSeems like a tooling problem though. I don't think it would be that difficult to have editors draw them in a readable way.
- nolok 2y agoIf you are okay with needing tooling to be able to edit half decently then the problem it "fixes" in CSV doesn't exists to begin with