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147 points wofo | 1 comments | 27 Oct 25 16:22 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source

I'm working on a tool that will probably involve querying JSON documents and I'm asking myself how to expose that functionality to my users.

I like the power of `jq` and the fact that LLMs are proficient at it, but I find it right out impossible to come up with the right `jq` incantations myself. Has anyone here been in a similar situation? Which tool / language did you end up exposing to your users?

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ccvannorman ◴[27 Oct 25 20:25 UTC] No.45725844[source]▶

>>45722826 (OP) #

I can't help myself and surely someone else has already done the same. But the query

  obj.friends.filter(x=>{ return x.city=='New York'})
  .sort((a, b) => a.age - b.age)
  .map(item => ({ name: item.name, age: item.age }));

does exactly the same without any plugin.

am I missing something?

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1. joshribakoff ◴[27 Oct 25 20:51 UTC] No.45726124[source]▶

>>45725844 #

The verbosity.

To your point abstractions often multiply and then hide the complexity, and create a facade of simplicity.

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