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Are we sure it should get a single-letter 'q' binary name though? Docs seem to point that it's short for 'query-json'? Why not call it 'query-json' and let the user decide that as a shell alias or whatever. Even the ubiquitous 'ls' and 'cd' are two characters.
Yeah. Can you imagine trying to do a web search for ‘q’?
I'd long for such a tool with a better comprehensible query language.
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jq is pretty fast in my experience. But there have been cases where I've wanted it to be faster (dealing with a 90GB JSON file). The main weakness seems to be streaming use cases (not having the whole file in memory at once). These are supported, but the syntax is quite awkward.
Out of interest, what created a 90GB JSON file?
Curious, any description as to why it's faster? Something intrinsic to Reason Native/OCaml? Architectural changes? Reduced feature set?
I was somewhat surprised it didn't use an existing json parser library.
Curious, any description as to why it's faster? Something intrinsic to Reason Native/OCaml? Architectural changes? Reduced feature set?
Do we need to make jq faster ? Anyone has issues with current speed ? Is there any specific reason other than "because we can" ?
But if I had done something like that, and then serendipitously discovered that I was exceeding the original's performance, I certainly wouldn't be shy about it.
Also, this comes across as armchair criticism purely for the sake of armchair criticism. My own experience has been that, when I'm doing ETL that involves wrangling JSON, the "wrangling JSON" bit of it is almost always the bottleneck. So any improvement is more than welcome and deserves to be cheered. Even if it's an improvement on something that's already the current fastest way to do it.
https://mosermichael.github.io/jq-illustrated/dir/content.ht...
I'd long for such a tool with a better comprehensible query language.
If so, and for anybody else having this wish, check out jql[0], I've created it exactly for this reason, to have the most common jq operations available in a more uniform and easier to use interface. [0]: https://github.com/cube2222/jql
I will try to bring it to the brenchmark, thanks for sharing
Hm, I thought q is synonym for querying CSV files https://harelba.github.io/q/