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Re:Show HN: Jq alternative built on top of JavaScript anonym... by stephenr on Friday January 26, 2018 @09:48AM (#16239536)
The whole reason for using jq in the first place is to handle json without needing to rely on a high level language runtime being available.
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Re:Show HN: Jq alternative built on top of JavaScript anonym... by medv on Friday January 26, 2018 @11:08AM (#16240220)
Not convinced. I have nodejs on my machine AND I want to manipulate JSON in cli.
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Re:Show HN: Jq alternative built on top of JavaScript anonym... by stephenr on Friday January 26, 2018 @01:14PM (#16241464)
I didn't say your reason. It's the reason the vast majority of people would use it.

It's even alluded to on the project homepage:

> jq is written in portable C, and it has zero runtime dependencies. You can download a single binary, scp it to a far away machine of the same type, and expect it to work.

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Re:Show HN: Jq alternative built on top of JavaScript anonym... by medv on Friday January 26, 2018 @06:52PM (#16243881)
Done. =)

Now fx has standalone binary (linux, macos, win): https://github.com/antonmedv/fx/releases

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Re:Show HN: Jq alternative built on top of JavaScript anonym... by helb on Monday January 29, 2018 @09:16AM (#16257575)
Now people are going to complain it's 1500x bigger than jq… :)

Thanks for this tool, i think i'll use it. Jq is great, but i can't do "advanced" operations without manual and/or Google. I use JS almost every day, so with Fx it's way easier (for me).

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Re:Show HN: Jq alternative built on top of JavaScript anonym... by medv on Friday January 26, 2018 @02:16PM (#16242047)
I think, I can bundle fx with node into single bin for it =)
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