The tone is just awful, borderline illegible.
> I wasn’t particularly worried about parsing CSV files. That’s a solved problem.
> Detecting primitive types is easy. String. Number. Boolean. Date.
... the rabbit said confidently, staring down the oncoming lawn mower.
> I honestly thought the viewer would take a weekend.
> Display rows.
> Add scrolling.
Burma Shave?
Gotta hate this writing style where every sentence is so pompous as to demand its own paragraph. This isn't that revelatory. My mind is entirely as intact and un-blown as it has been. It's okay.
I appreciate a lot of the points made -- particularly that a CSV document, like any text, is a product of a partucular context and needs to be understood as such. It's a fascinating area to delve into for any product, even one as seemingly-simple as this.
But I struggled with the writing style: short, staccato sentences, each following the same simple structure, and each presented as its own paragraph. I can't help but feel it would've read better as normal prose.