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angryamoeba

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    Comment #5318265

    I can't help but feel that those people were using Ubuntu expecting it to be something that it was never intended to be. To be surprised at evolutionary changes which shed the aest…

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    Comment #4003193

    None whatsoever apart from to say that it's acceptably fast for whatever data set I happen to throw at it. Another poster here mentioned in an email that he'd tried it against arra…

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    Comment #4002763

    Good utility, but I had a few specific itches to scratch with SpahQL: * Declarative syntax for selections, such that selection queries may be handed between implementations in othe…

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    Comment #4002270

    That's a pretty interesting idea, and I see no reason why it shouldn't work.

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    Comment #4002266

    Nope it's completely my fault. SpahQL is so named because it was primarily developed for Spah, another project I'm working on. I hope I don't cause too much confusion!

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    Comment #4002189

    Can you unpack that question a little for me? As in, could you use a spahql selection as the path component of some request? I don't see why not, but the escaping will probably loo…

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    Comment #4002129

    Hope you get some use out of it - don't forget to let me know any issues you have. Also there's some other neat JS-querying systems linked in these comments, so check those out and…

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    Comment #4001968

    This looks pretty handy for large datasets, to be sure. SpahQL is definitely much lighter than that - the API is intended to be more jquery-like with a specific selector language, …

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    Comment #4001960

    Author here. I wanted to try something a little lighter than jsonpath and with a specific mode of (node collection|descent) that allowed set arithmetic to be the primary means of c…

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    Comment #2868955

    Sure - Spah is intended to act as the V in your MVC. I'd probably just use Express for the C and Mongoose or similar for the M. I find that stitching my own framework from quality …

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    Comment #2868735

    Thanks for mentioning that - Have to say, it's a work in progress. The query language for JSON (called SpahQL) is done, but I'm currently working on the document runner. See the re…