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Powerful but not sufficient. There’s plenty of us who don’t use jq for various reasons.
by hnlmorg 10mo ago
Powerful but not sufficient. There’s plenty of us who don’t use jq for various reasons.
- jcims 10mo agoLLMs have allowed me to start using jq for more than pretty printing JSON.
- ruuda 10mo agoGive https://rcl-lang.org/#intuitive-json-queries https://rcl-lang.org/#intuitive-json-queries a try! It can fill a similar role, but the syntax is very similar to Python/TypeScript/Rust, so you don’t need an LLM to write the query for you.
- jcims 10mo agoNice! Thanks!
- hnlmorg 10mo agoThe issue isn’t jq’s syntax. It’s that I already use other tools that fill that niche and have done since as long as jq has been a thing. And frankly, I personally believe the other tools are superior so I don’t want to fallback to jq just because someone on HN tells me to.