First release of jq in 5 years

• jq

  52 29,042 9.4 C

  Command-line JSON processor

  

Delighted to see work continue on jq, which I use for altogether way too many things.

I ask this as a fan of both the project and the new pick() feature: are there any other functions in jq whose interpretation of their arguments is "non-regular" in the sense the PR author means [here][1]?

More concretely, the expression `.a, .b.c, .x` means something very different outside a pick call. It represents a uncollected stream of more than one value, rather than a reduction of an object into a subset of itself.

The syntax inside a pick call is (I believe) impossible to implement in jq; it has to be a builtin. There's no way to get "regular jq" to extract the path expressions as strings with which to set an object's keys.

Ultimately I do think like the addition, but I recognize the tradeoff of "pure" consistency for syntactical brevity. I'd be curious to hear from the maintainers A) whether I'm off-base about the pathexp syntax limitation and B) if there's some philosophy or design principle guiding why and when they might decide to add specialized interpretations of pathexps.

[1]: https://github.com/jqlang/jq/pull/2656#issuecomment-16228220...

• gojq

  31 3,084 8.6 Go

  Pure Go implementation of jq

Some competition for https://github.com/itchyny/gojq. I had read somewhere that it was faster than jq - no idea if that's still the case.

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