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by 1vuio0pswjnm7 1023 days ago
"I can't stand jq."

jq is way too much for what I need. I hacked together a filter in C to reformat JSON and I like it better than every JSON library/utility I have tried. For simple reformatting, jq is slow and brittle by comparison. Also, I can extract JSON from web pages and other mixed input. All the JSON utilities I have tried expect perfectly-formed JSON and nothing else.