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Re:Jtc – CLI tool to extract, manipulate and transform sourc... by bradknowles on Tuesday October 08, 2019 @07:04PM (#21198260)
The "User Guide.md" file is over 3000 lines long, comprising some 133KB. I read through about a quarter of it, before my eyes started to glaze over.

I'm not convinced that I would call this "simpler" than jq.

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Re:Jtc – CLI tool to extract, manipulate and transform sourc... by ak217 on Tuesday October 08, 2019 @09:57PM (#21199249)
jq is one of the most intentionally designed pieces of software I've seen. In due time, I expect it to become as ubiquitous and indispensable as ls, grep, sed and awk. The jq language could use a formal spec, but other than that jq has a sublime elegance.

By contrast, this seems like one of the least intentionally designed pieces of CLI software I've seen.

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