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JQ is an insanely powerful language, just to put to rest any of your doubts about what it is capable of here is an implementation of JQ... in JQ itself:

https://github.com/wader/jqjq

It really is a super cool little, super expressive nearly (if not entirely) turing complete pure functional programming language.

You can:

* Define your own functions and libraries of functions

* Do light statistics

* Drastically reshape JSON data

* Create data indexes as part of you JQ scripts and summarize things

* Take JSON data, mangle it into TSV and pipe into SQLite

  cat data.json | jq '[]|@tsv' | sqlite3 -cmd ".mode tabs" -cmd ".import /dev/stdin YourTable"

And also for prototyping you can also use it to tailor output of APIs to what you need in a pinch, using JQ as a library especially with something like python:

https://pypi.org/project/jq/

As a part of the library you can compile your expressions down to "byte-code" once and reuse them.

Saying JQ is a best kept secret is an understatement. JQ gets more amazing the deeper you dig into it. Also it is kind of crazy fast for what it is.

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Some joke/useless software i've written:

- https://github.com/wader/jqjq

- https://github.com/wader/flac.tcl

In most cases i learned way more then i expected. Even made some friends.