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Jless – a command-line JSON viewer

by tilt on 7/29/23, 7:35 AM with 5 comments

  • by 1vuio0pswjnm7 on 7/29/23, 8:21 AM

    Neat idea, but it's a huge binary for what it does. Maybe it's written in Go or Rust. No way to disable color. NO_COLOR variable has no effect. I cobbled together a primitive JSON print utility for use in pipelines and as a static binary it's still only 90K. Even Nudelman's less(1) is only 199K.
  • by Shawnj2 on 7/30/23, 7:55 AM

    What’s the benefit of this over a CLI text editor with json support?