> I think there’s even an Excel plug-in for parquet these days.
While CSV comes with plenty of known problems, its one advantage, which apparently remains a significant one, is that it doesn't require any plugins or special software support at all, just a text editor. It seems that's a big enough feature that no attempt to fully replace it has really worked out. Amazing when you think about it, the power of plain text encoding.
Of course I agree that it's often not the best choice but somehow it remains incredibly useful and can even be hard to make arguments against it on a team project because it just kind or works well enough in a lot of cases and is simply a lowest common denominator when people can't agree on what format to use.
While CSV comes with plenty of known problems, its one advantage, which apparently remains a significant one, is that it doesn't require any plugins or special software support at all, just a text editor. It seems that's a big enough feature that no attempt to fully replace it has really worked out. Amazing when you think about it, the power of plain text encoding.
Of course I agree that it's often not the best choice but somehow it remains incredibly useful and can even be hard to make arguments against it on a team project because it just kind or works well enough in a lot of cases and is simply a lowest common denominator when people can't agree on what format to use.