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A comment on Ask HN: What (side-)project are you working on?.

Re:Ask HN: What (side-)project are you working on? by mnembrini on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @06:29PM (#26484055)
A Csv editor/viewer in Rust using druid. Very early stage, but the goal is to open large files (1 GB and over) easily and have some good filtering / sorting options. Excel stops at a certain amount of rows, LibreOffice is ok but slow and other editors I looked are not cross platform I know you can just import a Csv into a sql DB but it can be finicky it can take some time to map the columns, filter out invalid data etc. This can and should be all be automated
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Re:Ask HN: What (side-)project are you working on? by amir734jj on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @03:58AM (#26487781)
I work at a large financial company and every day we have a ansible job to get CSV file that's >1GB and move it to our shared drive. It's very idiot way of moving files but there are tons of companies still using this approach.

Then someone somewhere in India needs to make sure the job ran successfully by attempting to open that CSV file and doing a smoke testing.

I'm looking forward to this!

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Re:Ask HN: What (side-)project are you working on? by stonecharioteer on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @06:54AM (#26489222)
Uh, you could write a small python script to check the csv file. Why do you need a rust based gui for it?
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Re:Ask HN: What (side-)project are you working on? by nojito on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @06:49AM (#26489185)
Excel can trivially handle hundreds of millions of rows.

Using powerquery and power pivot

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