I owe hours of my life to Andrew Gallant aka BurntSushi's xsv. Nothing else tries to handle splitting long files into N-row chunks [1]. I was using the command line utility, but that's his wrapper around his rust-csv library. So if you need CSV parsing in rust, I strongly recommend this library.
[1] rows included linebreaks so your standard sed/head/tail/something-from-coreutils approach would not work.
I mean there are 131 open issues and some 30+ PRs, so clearly people have some desire for change.
No criticism to the author. He is way more productive than I will ever be, but xsv does appear to be on the back burner. Open source means the author can spend their time how they like and I am entitled to nothing.
readme says
this tool is originally a fork of BurntSushi's xsv, but has been nearly entirely rewritten at that point, to fit SciencesPo's médialab use-cases, rooted in web data collection and analysis geared towards social sciences (you might think CSV is outdated by now, but read our love letter to the format before judging too quickly). xan therefore goes beyond typical data manipulation and expose utilities related to lexicometry, graph theory and even scraping.
Was just going to say, the fd,bat author reminds me of burntsushi (xsv, rg), in terms of the massive benefit they've added to the *nix command-line ecosystem.
Astral is primarily funded by venture capital firms. The head honcho, Charlie, has mentioned a few times that he’d like to develop and sell services that integrate well with Astral’s open-source tools. However, nothing concrete has been established or announced yet.
I would not call that a tutorial on how to write good utility software. It's a quite specific description of how sub(1) was written, and it contains some useful lessons, but not many that would apply to the broad class of "utility software". I think.
