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I feel this whenever anyone advocates using jq. It boggles my mind that anyone would want to learn a whole new DSL for something that js makes trivial, especia

• viraptor 5y ago
  JS is not that easy to embed in scripting though for trivial situations. After seeing a couple of jq examples I can run `jq '.foo[] | {bar, baz}' without really "learning" its DSL. But doing the same with node? That would be much larger.
  • nfw2 5y ago
    And now everyone who needs to read your script needs to also find those examples to figure out what your code does. Even your not-real-world example isn't obvious to anyone unfamiliar with jq what the intent is
    • viraptor 5y ago
      That's about the only example you need explained to understand ~99% of real world jq usage. $dayjob has quite a bit of it around in various repos, and this actually is as real-world as it gets in my experience. Comparing that to having to learn enough JS to do the same thing in a verbose way, I'm still on the side of jq having an advantage in that case.