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Why isn’t there a decent file format for tabular data?
Yes, multiple tools exist to diff images, e.g. https://github.com/dmtrKovalenko/odiff
- Diff Images Quickly (NodeJS/Javascript)
hsv5
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Why isn’t there a decent file format for tabular data?
I've pondered exactly that. After a previous HN thread, I tried my hand at writing a specification that was minimal as possible but followed HTML5. For example many end tags are optional like `tr` and `td` end tags. Though I pulled in RDFa for richer data types.
Here's the GitHub repo for what I like to call HSV5: https://github.com/elcritch/hsv5/blob/main/README.md ;)
And an example of the smallest _valid_ HTML table format:
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JSON5 Data Interchange Format
Somewhat related, I was toying around with what an html5 based csv alternative could look like and called it hsv5 partly as a play on json5 and hdf5.
https://github.com/elcritch/hsv5
What are some alternatives?
pixelmatch - The smallest, simplest and fastest JavaScript pixel-level image comparison library
hjson-js - Hjson for JavaScript
winmerge - WinMerge is an Open Source differencing and merging tool for Windows. WinMerge can compare both folders and files, presenting differences in a visual text format that is easy to understand and handle.
rson - Rust Object Notation
pixels - A tiny hardware-accelerated pixel frame buffer. 🦀
ndjson-spec - Specification
parquet-wasm - Rust-based WebAssembly bindings to read and write Apache Parquet data
csvz - The hot new standard in open databases
json5 - JSON5 — JSON for Humans
oil - Oils is our upgrade path from bash to a better language and runtime. It's also for Python and JavaScript users who avoid shell!