jj was already taken by jujutsu, unfortunately.

The backtracking implementation in jq is really the secret sauce for how it handles those complex filters without getting bogged down

Looks like naive implementation of homemade bytecode interpreter. What's so mind blowing about that? Maybe I missed something.

OP here: Releases have been updated! Also someone was kind enough to package it in Homebrew already :) https://github.com/micahkepe/jsongrep/pull/22

Just hit this too:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47542182

The reason I was interested, was adding the new tool to arkade (similar to Brew, but more developer/devops focused - downloads binaries)

The agent found no Arm binaries.. and it seemed like an odd miss for a core tool

https://x.com/alexellisuk/status/2037514629409112346?s=20

I’d install it via cargo anyway and that would build it for arm64.

If the arm64 version was on homebrew (didn’t check if it is but assume not because it’s not mentioned on the page), I’d install it from there rather than from cargo.

I don’t really manually install binaries from GitHub, but it’s nice that the author provides binaries for several platforms for people that do like to install it that way.

Really? That is your response? This is an high quality article from someone who spend a lot of time implementing a cool tool and also sharing the intricate inner workings of it. And your response is, "eh there are no official binaries for my platform". Give them some credit! Be a little more constructive!

What were your syntax stumbling blocks? I must be honest I've used jq enough but can never remember the syntax. It's one of the worst things about jq IMO (not the speed, even though I'm a fan of speedups). There's something ungrokkable about that syntax for me.