Author here. I was really hoping to get binaries for Windows/Mac/Linux available before sharing it with others, but clearly I snoozed. I do have them available for Linux though, so you don't have to install Rust in order to try xsv: https://github.com/BurntSushi/xsv/releases

Otherwise, you could try using rustle[1], which should install `xsv` in one command (but it downloads Rust and compiles everything for you).

While I have your attention, if I had to pick one of the cooler features of xsv, I'd tell you about `xsv index`. Its a command that creates a very simple index that permits random access to your CSV data. This makes a lot of operations pretty fast. For example:

    xsv index worldcitiespop.csv  # ~1.5s for 145MB
    xsv slice -i 500000 worldcitiespop.csv | xsv table  # instant, plus elastic tab stops for good measure

That second command doesn't have to chug through the first 499,999 records to get the 500,000th record.

This can make other commands faster too, like random sampling and statistic gathering. (Parallelism is used when possible!)

Finally, have you ever seen a CLI app QuickCheck'd? Yes. It's awesome! :-) https://github.com/BurntSushi/xsv/blob/master/tests/test_sor...

[1] - https://github.com/brson/rustle

simi_

I'm looking forward to playing with cool languages like Rust, Nim, and Elm. But when I read stuff like this I remember why I love using Go every day. Generating binaries for multiple platforms is braindead easy, as is building from source on any system with Go installed.

That aside, really great work OP! I quite like the CSV format and had 2 ideas based on my experience with it that I'd love to get an opinion on:

1. markdown compiler plugin to expand ![title](filename.csv)

2. barebones, imgur-like website for quick CSV file[s] upload, maybe also a public gallery to showcase interesting data (obviously all uploads marked public/unlisted/private)

burntsushi

> But when I read stuff like this I remember why I love using Go every day.

Me too! I wrote a window manager in Go[1] that I've been using for years now. I love that it takes <30 seconds to download and compile the whole thing. No C dependencies (compile or runtime) at all.

With that said, doing it with Rust should be almost as easy. There's no `cargo install` command, but I think it's only a matter of time. :-)

Your ideas seem cool, by the way! Sharing CSV data would be especially nice.

[1] - https://github.com/BurntSushi/wingo