Yes i can empathize with finding jq hard to understand, it's quite different and took a while to grasp. The reason i choosed it anyway was that after prototypin

Yes i can empathize with finding jq hard to understand, it's quite different and took a while to grasp. The reason i choosed it anyway was that after prototyping some common type of queries i would like to do (basic value access in deep structures, multiple recursive traverse with filtering, transform objects and arrays) in various languages, jq was more or less then only one that felt terse enough. Also i think it's quite nice that you can output to JSON and then load into whatever language or environment you want Maybe there are some alternatives i should look at?