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In terms of side projects, I’ve deliberately curated a smaller set that meets multiple criteria. Social connection, simplicity and elegance, and the ability to start and stop at wi…

Yeah that works. But I also wanted the ability to produce JSON Patch and JSON Merge Patch formats. And to support set semantics, identifying objects by specified keys. And it works…

> Would be nice to be able to use it as a VSCode extension! I've added support to use jd as a Git diff engine: https://github.com/josephburnett/jd?tab=readme-ov-file#use-g... . Can…

> One feature I’ve yet to see is applying jq query syntax to the jsons before the diff Will you please add this as a feature request? https://github.com/josephburnett/jd/issues . I…

> When that happens, it computes a very long diff where it could have just said "element is missing at index N". That's exactly the problem addressed by this issue: https://github.…

> I would note is that some restructurings with jq increased the quality of the diff by a lot. I would really like to know more about these restructurings. Would you mind dropping …

> couldn't this also be have been called jdiff? I feel like the two-letter tool name is exercising developer memory more than strictly required. Yeah, in retrospect I should have g…

jd is a commandline utility and Go library for diffing and patching JSON and YAML values. It supports a native jd format (similar to unified format) as well as JSON Merge Patch (RF…