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[irrelative]

Sure, could be simpler, but there's a spec and multiple implementations: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4180.html And the spec is ~5 pages.

Not sure why NDJSON is considered simpler, as json objects can be arbitrarily nested. Breaking into records is easier, but parsing is harder.

[easrng → irrelative]

(ND)JSON is simpler because people actually follow the spec, unlike with CSV.

[Dylan16807 → easrng]

People violate the JSON spec all the time.

And following the CSV spec is much easier than following the JSON spec. And there's only like three edge cases.

[mschuster91 → Dylan16807]

> And there's only like three edge cases.

Unless you involve MS Excel or, worse, MS Excel on macOS. OTOH, pitfalls are: UTF-8 BOM, comma vs semicolon, single vs double quote, multiline cell content and escaping, escaping in general...