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Feature request: `tad` as VS Code extension

Open pstorozenko opened this issue 1 year ago • 0 comments

Hi, I really appreciate the effort you put into creating the tad. Personally, I find it very useful to preview the data, especially in the parquet format that is a binary format.

For all my data analysis I use VS Code so I either use pandas/polars to preview parquet files in separate jupyter notebook, or have to open tad on side. This workflow is far from optimal.

It got me thinking, since VS Code is shipped in electron and it's extensions are written in TS/JS maybe it's feasible to create a VS Code extension that runs tad? What do you think, has this approach been explored in the past?


Context:

  1. Right now VS Code lacks good and reliable previewer for parquet files.
  2. Apache Arrow grows stronger and stronger with duckdb working seamlessly with arrow files, pandas 2.0 supporting use of pyarrow instead of numpy as backend, polars (build directly around arrow) gaining popularity and traction.
  3. Adding tad to VS Code might greatly enhance adoption of tad.

Unfortunately I don't have any TS knowledge so I can't explore this further.

pstorozenko avatar Jun 06 '23 13:06 pstorozenko