Technically no, because it offers no comparable way to interface to the line-based world of unix tools for interop. Practically, most things you'd do with gron

Technically no, because it offers no comparable way to interface to the line-based world of unix tools for interop. Practically, most things you'd do with gron and grep, sed, awk, ... you could do using only jq as well. Jq comes with massive cognitive overhead though and has a bunch of very unpleasant gotchas (like silently corrupting numbers with abs > 2^53, although very recent jq graciously no longer does that iff you do no processing on the number). I find jq pretty useful, but I have no love for it.