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by emmanueloga_ 1688 days ago
The look and feel of this language is due to its close relationship with XQuery and the XML world, including the syntax.

From [1]:

XQuery 3.1 was designed with the goal to support additional data structures (maps, arrays) in memory. These structures are mapped to JSON for input and output. XQuery 3.1 has been a W3C recommendation since March 2017.

JSONiq was designed with the goal of querying and updating JSON in settings such as document stores. It was also designed by members of the XML Query working group (disclaimer: I am one of them) while investigating various possibilities to support JSON.

1: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44919443/what-are-the-di...