I've written a tool inspired by jq that builds on top of ramda and LiveScript. The motivation behind it was to be able to write pipelines with tools that already exist, instead of having to learn new syntax that can't be used outside that domain.

https://github.com/raine/ramda-cli

The example from before would look like this:

    curl https://api.github.com/repos/stedolan/jq/commits\?per_page\=5 |\
      R 'map -> message: it.commit.message, name: it.commit.committer.name'