There exists a peculiar amnesia in software engineering regarding XML. Mention it in most circles and you will receive knowing smiles, dismissive waves, the sort of patronizing acknowledgment reserved for technologies deemed passé. “Oh, XML,” they say, as if the very syllables carry the weight of obsolescence. “We use JSON now. Much cleaner.”

  • flying_sheep@lemmy.ml
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    4 hours ago

    No:

    • CSV isn’t good for anything unless you exactly specify the dialect. CSV is unstandardized, so you can’t parse arbitrary CSV files correctly.
    • you don’t have to serialize tables to JSON in the “list of named records” format

    Just user Zarr or so for array data. A table with more than 200 rows isn’t ”human readable” anyway.