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"CSV" should die. The linked article makes critical ommisions and is wrong about some points. Goes to show just how awful "CSV" is.

For one thing, it talks about needing only to quote commas and newlines... qotes are usually fine... until they are on either side of the value. then you NEED to quote them as well.

Then there is the question about what exactly "text" is; with all the complications around Unicode, BOM markers, and LTR/RTL text.


People who stress about people who stress about linting… focus on something else. Everyone has their idiosyncrasies.

A lot of great coders have psychological oddities. Some things help them focus. Whether it’s neat environment, listening to music, consistent code formatting.

I listen to them and try and accommodate even if I disagree. I’ve changed my mind about several topics multiple times now. I felt strongly about some at one point over the past few decades as well.


I've mostly been cloud free this way. I do send (sometimes encrypted) backups/copies elsewhere, but those are exceptions. And it works well across many client devices (and remote via DNS/forwarding).


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