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I've often wondered what would happen if there was a standard text editor plugin for dealing with parquet and co.

It seems like these formats are disliked, as they are difficult to inspect - but there really isn't any reason UTF-8 bytes arranged in a large sequence (aka CSV) should be any easier to read except for editor support. Sure writes would be slower, but I'd expect most users wouldn't care on modern hardware.




Yeah I don't really understand the downside to a format like parquet here. "Less ubiquitous" seems to be the only one in the parent comment's list?




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