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> But for me, it ranks right next to regex in terms of "things I (don't) want to see in my code."

Yeah if you don't like jq you likely won't like Regex, xpath, etc. Any syntax that is incredibly terse and complex.

Like Regex though, jq is too powerful to ignore and many times the best tool to use.




jq has regex support! :)




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