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		Filligree on Aug 14, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: CSVs Are Kinda Bad. DSVs Are Kinda Good You can’t put comments in JSON, while that’s fairly easy in CSV. This makes JSON unusable most of the time for human-editable data.

imtringued on Aug 14, 2024 [–]

There is no such thing as a comment in CSV.

Filligree on Aug 14, 2024 | [–]

In many dialects there are. Usually you start the line with #.

Comments will happen. If your file format doesn’t allow comments, then people will make up an extension to allow it. This is true even for binary formats.

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