[DiabloD3]

I'm not big on using language-specific tooling. Programs need to be part of the package manager management loop of a distro to ever be adopted, especially for developers who don't use those languages.

Using language-specific package managers can only lead to out of date software, security bugs, and other nastiness. Same reason I don't install programs with pip, npm, or other crazy things.

[allarm]

Then do your part and become a maintainer. I don’t think that a small team of developers has cycles to do that at this point.

[ducktective]

Basically, CLI tools like this one or fzf, rg, fd have to become popular and useful enough to win favour of distro maintainers.

When enough shell scripts state a dependency on `jq`, debian maintainers would be inclined to package it.

[DiabloD3]

And they did. jq is packaged in Debian now.