[HN Gopher] Arquero - data tables wrangling in JavaScript
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       Arquero - data tables wrangling in JavaScript
        
       Author : romaintailhurat
       Score  : 59 points
       Date   : 2022-07-22 12:00 UTC (1 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (uwdata.github.io)
 (TXT) w3m dump (uwdata.github.io)
        
       | gerad wrote:
       | We explored Arquero a year or so ago. It's pretty cool, can run
       | against data in Apache Arrow format and even transform it to run
       | against WebGPU I think. This makes things run super fast.
       | 
       | It didn't work for our use case so we didn't end up using it for
       | long.
       | 
       | I also didn't like that it parsed and transformed your JavaScript
       | behind the scenes for various reasons. [1]
       | 
       | Honestly, this just leads to a lot of confusion and additional
       | complexity for folks to reason about. I'd have preferred just a
       | non-JavaScript DSL for the stuff they optimize and for things to
       | work exactly the way you expect when you do use JavaScript.
       | 
       | [1] https://uwdata.github.io/arquero/api/expressions.html
        
         | pbowyer wrote:
         | > I also didn't like that it parsed and transformed your
         | JavaScript behind the scenes for various reasons. [1]
         | 
         | If your data's smaller e.g. you do most of the filtering on the
         | backend but want to transform it to display multiple ways on
         | the frontend, I really enjoy using Tidy.js
         | https://pbeshai.github.io/tidy/. Great API and makes massaging
         | data pleasant.
        
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