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Re:The Beauty of Unix Pipelines (2020) by a_conservative on Sunday June 05, 2022 @08:55AM (#31630559)
jq has >20k stars on GitHub.

I use it mostly for little cli utilities, so maybe it isn’t an exact refutation of your claim.

[0] https://github.com/stedolan/jq

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Re:The Beauty of Unix Pipelines (2020) by unsafecast on Sunday June 05, 2022 @11:03AM (#31631581)
Sure, but I think the bigger problem is complete systems. Look at a usual Linux box. It has a bunch of files, all with their custom syntax, and you parse them with error-prone shell commands. If everything used json, everyone's lives would've been so much better.

Independent programs using json is a step in the right direction though.

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