warpd VS zsv

Compare warpd vs zsv and see what are their differences.

warpd

A modal keyboard-driven virtual pointer (by rvaiya)

zsv

zsv+lib: world's fastest (simd) CSV parser, bare metal or wasm, with an extensible CLI for SQL querying, format conversion and more (by liquidaty)
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warpd zsv
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2,767 170
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2.3 7.4
19 days ago 8 days ago
C C
MIT License MIT License
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warpd

Posts with mentions or reviews of warpd. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-09-07.
  • Turning a Keyboard into a Mouse with Libevdev
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Sep 2023
    I also enjoyed using https://github.com/rvaiya/warpd on my mac. But was hit with few bugs, where the pointer used to get stuck. Had to keep restarting. But still a nice program to ditch mouse.
  • using keyboard
    2 projects | /r/hyprland | 3 Jul 2023
    for something similar that works with anything even beyond your browser there's warpd. I haven't used it I just know it exists. If you're into custom keyboards QMK can send mouse movements from keypresses too.
  • Compiling Problem
    1 project | /r/openSUSE | 26 Mar 2023
    So I am trying to compile warpd, i followed and installed the dependencies, but when I make, it outputs wayland-client.h not found. Fair enough, I installed geckolinux TW Plasma, NVIDIA working fine, X11 session. I used "zypper se", it showed wayland is installed but nevermind; in the docs they have said that you can 'Set options' to only compile X11 binary. I want only that but I am just racking my brain where to insert 'DISABLE_WAYLAND' option. I know its a most basic and obvious setting but i come from arch where i fully relied on AUR for building so i zero compiling knowledge. I tried RTFM but idk what I have to find. I would be helpful if someone helps me here
  • How to avoid mouse in macos?
    6 projects | /r/neovim | 22 Mar 2023
    Hey there! You should definitely check out warpd. It's a modal keyboard-driven pointer manipulation program that can help you control the pointer on your screen using just your keyboard.
  • Navigating with a keyboard Ubuntu.
    1 project | /r/linuxquestions | 14 Mar 2023
    I think you're maybe thinking of warpd? https://github.com/rvaiya/warpd
  • Vimium – The Hacker's Browser
    21 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Feb 2023
  • Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours? (2022 edition)
    69 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Dec 2022
    warpd avoided me spending a lot of time going from the keyboard to the mouse,for simple point and clicks. Honestly it is super useful.

    https://github.com/rvaiya/warpd

  • What features is Gnome missing according to you
    4 projects | /r/gnome | 17 Nov 2022
    Maybe you'd find warpd intersting.
  • Ask HN: What's the best way to control a cursor from the keyboard on macOS?
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Nov 2022
    I'd like to minimize my need for a mouse but there are some tasks which are just so much simpler with a cursor. I do have some mouse keys setup with Karabiner so that holding "k" and pressing esdf moves the cursor, but I've found this difficult to get used to. I have a few different keys to modify the speed, but it just feels way too convoluted and effortful to to control the cursor this way.

    I've also tried warpd [1] but had some issues with it that turned me off to it.

    Curious to know if anyone here has had success with something else

    [1] https://github.com/rvaiya/warpd

  • TPMouse: control the cursor with the homerow, even if you don't have a ThinkPad
    4 projects | /r/thinkpad | 19 Oct 2022
    I actually wrote this after seeing https://github.com/rvaiya/warpd on HackerNews and saw multiple people lament that they'd like to be able to use that for Windows. You should definitely check that out!

zsv

Posts with mentions or reviews of zsv. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-18.
  • Analyzing multi-gigabyte JSON files locally
    14 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Mar 2023
    If it could be tabular in nature, maybe convert to sqlite3 so you can make use of indexing, or CSV to make use of high-performance tools like xsv or zsv (the latter of which I'm an author).

    https://github.com/BurntSushi/xsv

    https://github.com/liquidaty/zsv/blob/main/docs/csv_json_sql...

  • Show HN: Up to 100x Faster FastAPI with simdjson and io_uring on Linux 5.19
    20 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Mar 2023
    Parsing CSV doesn't have to be slow if you use something like xsv or zsv (https://github.com/liquidaty/zsv) (disclaimer: I'm an author). The speed of CSV parsers is fast enough that unless you are doing something ultra-trivial such as "count rows", your bottleneck will be elsewhere.

    The benefits of CSV are:

    - human readable

    - does not need to be typed (sometimes, data in the raw such as date-formatted data is not amenable to typing without introducing a pre-processing layer that gets you further from the original data)

    - accessible to anyone: you don't need to be a data person to dbl-click and open in Excel or similar

    The main drawback is that if your data is already typed, CSV does not communicate what the type is. You can alleviate this through various approaches such as is described at https://github.com/liquidaty/zsv/blob/main/docs/csv_json_sql..., though I wouldn't disagree that if you can be assured that your starting data conforms to non-text data types, there are probably better formats than CSV.

    The main benefit of Arrow, IMHO, is less as a format for transmitting / communicating but rather as a format for data at rest, that would benefit from having higher performance column-based read and compression

  • Yq is a portable yq: command-line YAML, JSON, XML, CSV and properties processor
    11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Feb 2023
  • csvkit: Command-line tools for working with CSV
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Jan 2023
    I wanted so much to use csvkit and all the features it had, but its horrendous performance made it unscalable and therefore the more I used it, the more technical debt I accumulated.

    This was one of the reasons I wrote zsv (https://github.com/liquidaty/zsv). Maybe csvkit could incorporate the zsv engine and we could get the best of both worlds?

    Examples (using majestic million csv):

    ---

  • Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours? (2022 edition)
    69 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Dec 2022
  • Show HN: Split CSV into multiple files to avoid the Excel's 1M row limitation
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Oct 2022
    }

    ```

    This of course assumes that each line is a single record, so you'll need some preprocessing if your CSV might contain embedded line-ends. For the preprocessing, you can use something like the `2tsv` command of https://github.com/liquidaty/zsv (disclaimer: I'm its author), which converts CSV to TSV and replaces newline with \n.

    You can also use something like `xsv split` (see https://lib.rs/crates/xsv) which frankly is probably your best option as of today (though zsv will be getting its own shard command soon)

  • Run SQL on CSV, Parquet, JSON, Arrow, Unix Pipes and Google Sheet
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Sep 2022
  • Ask HN: Best way to find help creating technical doc (open- or closed-source)?
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Sep 2022
    Am looking for one-time help creating documentation (e.g. man pages, tutorials) for open source project (e.g. https://github.com/liquidaty/zsv) as well as product documentation for commercial products, but not enough need for a full-time job. Requires familiarity with, for lack of better term, data janitorial work, and preferably with methods of auto-generating documentation. Any suggestions as to forums or other ways to find folks who might fit the bill for ad-hoc or part-time work of this nature?
  • Q – Run SQL Directly on CSV or TSV Files
    13 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Sep 2022
    Nice work. I am a fan of tools like this and look forward to giving this a try.

    However, in my first attempted query (version 3.1.6 on MacOS), I ran into significant performance limitations and more importantly, it did not give correct output.

    In particular, running on a narrow table with 1mm rows (the same one used in the xsv examples) using the command "select country, count() from worldcitiespop_mil.csv group by country" takes 12 seconds just to get an incorrect error 'no such column: country'.

    using sqlite3, it takes two seconds or so to load, and less than a second to run, and gives me the correct result.

    Using https://github.com/liquidaty/zsv (disclaimer, I'm one of its authors), I get the correct results in 0.95 seconds with the one-liner `zsv sql 'select country, count() from data group by country' worldcitiespop_mil.csv`.

    I look forward to trying it again sometime soon

  • A Trillion Prices
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Sep 2022
    All this banter arguing over CSV, JSON, sqlite seems unnecessary when you can just push format X through a pipe and get whichever format Y you want back out: https://github.com/liquidaty/zsv/blob/main/docs/csv_json_sql...

    (disclaimer: I'm one of the zsv authors)

What are some alternatives?

When comparing warpd and zsv you can also consider the following projects:

xkeysnail - Yet another keyboard remapping tool for X environment

visidata - A terminal spreadsheet multitool for discovering and arranging data

keyd - A key remapping daemon for linux.

duckdb - DuckDB is an in-process SQL OLAP Database Management System

awesome-wayland - A curated list of Wayland code and resources.

lnav - Log file navigator

xsnip - a minimal and convenient screenshot utility for X11

tsv-utils - eBay's TSV Utilities: Command line tools for large, tabular data files. Filtering, statistics, sampling, joins and more.

xbanish - Hide the mouse cursor when typing and show it again when the mouse moves

ClickHouse - ClickHouse® is a free analytics DBMS for big data

dragon - Drag and drop source/target for X

nio - Low Overhead Numerical/Native IO library & tools