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High-performance JSON to GRON (greppable, flattened JSON) converter

11 mentions on Hacker News by 7 people: 3 stories, 8 comments · first 2023-05-28 · latest 2026-03-27

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  1. or https://github.com/adamritter/fastgron
    comment by eevmanu · 2026-03-27 · in A Faster Alternative to Jq
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    Fastgron High-performance JSON to GRON (greppable, flattened JSON) converter
    story by Bluestein · 2025-07-22 · 0 comments
  3. …as well. I discovered fastgron [0] last year and found it convenient for some situations! [0] https://github.com/adamritter/fastgron
    comment by crashabr · 2025-07-21 · in Jqfmt like gofmt, but for jq
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    Fastgron: Make JSON greppable, super fast
    story by fanf2 · 2025-05-10 · 0 comments
  5. …already. Anyways, it's the best JSON parser I found (in any language), I implemented fastgron ( https://github.com/adamritter/fastgron ) on top of it because of the on demand library performance. One problem with the library was that it…
    comment by xiphias2 · 2024-02-10 · in On-demand JSON: A better way to parse documents?
  6. Thanks, it's a clear bug. I created a new issue for it: https://github.com/adamritter/fastgron/issues/19
    comment by xiphias2 · 2023-12-05 · in Gron: Make JSON greppable
  7. Can you try https://github.com/adamritter/fastgron as a comparision?
    comment by xiphias2 · 2023-12-05 · in Gron: Make JSON greppable
  8. Here's the fastgron printer if you want to compare: https://github.com/adamritter/fastgron/blob/main/src/print_g...
    comment by xiphias2 · 2023-12-04 · in Gron: Make JSON greppable
  9. …working with 15MB JSON files. (I think gron -u is even worse, but my memory is a bit fuzzy here). https://github.com/adamritter/fastgron as an alternative has been pretty good to me in terms of performance, I think both in speed and RAM…
    comment by salted-fry · 2023-12-03 · in Gron: Make JSON greppable
  10. And also https://github.com/adamritter/fastgron that I've just discovered.
    comment by lkuty · 2023-11-30 · in Jaq – A jq clone focused on correctness, speed, and simplicity
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    Show HN: fastgron: A JSON to GRON Converter That's 40 Times Faster Than Gron
    story by xiphias2 · 2023-05-28 · 3 comments