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Something not having alternatives doesn't make it necessarily nice. It's okay to wish for better even if you have something that works.
by speed_spread 3y ago
Something not having alternatives doesn't make it necessarily nice. It's okay to wish for better even if you have something that works.
- ustolemyname 3y agoI think in this case "better" reduces to convincing the upstream data source to not use json. Putting that frustration on jq seems like a case of transference.
- spion 3y agoOr maybe jq does have some design flaws.
- Nullabillity 3y agoAnd now you've turned a JSON traversal problem into a parsing problem.. congratulations?
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- hn92726819 3y ago> Something not having alternatives doesn't make it necessarily nice Of course not, but compared to every alternative today, jq is eons better than everything else. It's conciseness, ease of use, ease of learning all make it awesome. So as of right now, it is the nicest thing to use by far. Personally though, I don't think I do wish for better. Jq is missing nothing that I want.