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niam on Sept 7, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: jq 1.7

Is this a proper summary of the use cases over Deno/Python scripts?

* Run directly from the command line

* Small interpreter ~1MB

* Compact language (for better or worse)

* Stable

cryptonector on Sept 7, 2023 [–]

This is a common refrain. So much so that when we changed the release artifact names in 1.7 we broke scripts and docker recipes that would download jq from the github releases 'latest' URIs! (This is fixed now.)

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