VisiData
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
4recommend
0warn against
Nov 25, 2025first mention
Aug 16, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“They’re easy to inspect using visidata and make outer use of.”
“when I'm examining experiment data I use the closest modern tool to Lotus: https://www.visidata.org/”
AI safety researcheron “Lotus 1-2-3 on the PC with DOS”
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“I use VisiData[0] to view and modify in bulk.”
“visidata to interactively review the intermediate files”
Caveats and dissent
No one in these comments warned against it.
Who recommends it in their own words
Threads where it came up
- Asynchronous I/O in DuckDB: Work, Thread, Work 1 mention
- Lotus 1-2-3 on the PC with DOS 1 mention
- GNU recutils: Plain text database 1 mention
- Python is not a great language for data science 1 mention
Data: visidata.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 4
“They’re easy to inspect using visidata and make outer use of.”
“when I'm examining experiment data I use the closest modern tool to Lotus: https://www.visidata.org/”
“I use VisiData[0] to view and modify in bulk.”
“visidata to interactively review the intermediate files”