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I’ve always liked CSV. It’s a streaming friendly format so:

- the sender can produce it incrementally

- the receiver can begin processing it as soon as the first byte arrives (or, more roughly, unescaped newline)

- gzip compression works without breaking the streaming nature

Yeah, it’s a flawed interchange format. But in a closed system over HTTP it’s brilliant.



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