>jq's special snowflake language If you'll bother condescending to such, you'll find one of the most interesting languages I've encountered in years. jq's synt

>jq's special snowflake language If you'll bother condescending to such, you'll find one of the most interesting languages I've encountered in years. jq's syntax and execution model is beautiful. It has some rough edges, leave no doubt. Some function names, date handling, and the obtuseness of some of the errors it returns can be frustrating. But its data streaming layers of nested closures are an extremely terse, readable, and powerful way of expressing operations over structured data.