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Yeah, you can also use Parquet/JSON/protobuf/XLSX and store numbers as strings in this format. CSV is just a container.

• ahoka 2y ago
  But somehow CSV is the PHP of serialization formats, attracts the wrong kind of developers and projects.
  • remram 2y ago
    I definitely wouldn't say that. I saw a lot of weird stuff in Excel files, and there's the whole crowd only giving you data as PDFs.