[viraptor]

JS is not that easy to embed in scripting though for trivial situations. After seeing a couple of jq examples I can run `jq '.foo[] | {bar, baz}' without really "learning" its DSL. But doing the same with node? That would be much larger.

[nfw2]

And now everyone who needs to read your script needs to also find those examples to figure out what your code does. Even your not-real-world example isn't obvious to anyone unfamiliar with jq what the intent is

[viraptor]

That's about the only example you need explained to understand ~99% of real world jq usage. $dayjob has quite a bit of it around in various repos, and this actually is as real-world as it gets in my experience. Comparing that to having to learn enough JS to do the same thing in a verbose way, I'm still on the side of jq having an advantage in that case.