Sure, just like you don’t have to use SQL. JSONiq is strongly typed, so only the strongly typed languages are equivalent. The point of this project, like SQL,

Sure, just like you don’t have to use SQL. JSONiq is strongly typed, so only the strongly typed languages are equivalent. The point of this project, like SQL, is to have something programming language agnostic that can be understood and optimized by a db or a tool that doesn’t use your programming language. It’s mostly designed for data analysis and data interchange.