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The non-webdev part of me is rather depressed that we've resorted to storing N typically homogeneous records in a way which results in the serialization of field names N times.

Wouldn't it be nicer to make the default format an object of arrays rather than an array of objects?

In before "but gzip!"



But to do easy and ~beautiful~ work on the objects (and to work on them the way most JS libraries expect data) you'd have to zipper the arrays together anyway.


TSV or CSV?




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