I'm guessing the point is to be a common type of query language that can be used from any number of other languages: http://jmespath.org/libraries.html http://j

I'm guessing the point is to be a common type of query language that can be used from any number of other languages: http://jmespath.org/libraries.html http://jmespath.org/libraries.html In at least some languages if these queries can be used without deserializing into a native data structure and then serialized back into a string, this could be a major win.