[pantulis]

I am also on the same side of the discussion, but I'm a programmer by trade. Most of the cases I've seen non trivial jq uses is by people doing command line or shell script magic. In this context I guess it's easier to write the jq expression language than to whip up a fully fledged Python/Ruby/Perl script without having to debug pretty basic stuff once you know the syntax. Pretty much like awk.

[eatonphil]

I'm a programmer by trade. I use jq. :)