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147 points wofo | 1 comments | 27 Oct 25 16:22 UTC | HN request time: 0.203s | 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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gcr ◴[27 Oct 25 21:19 UTC] No.45726431[source]▶
I read the man page of `jq` and learned how to use it. It's quite well-written and contains a good introduction.

I've observed that too many users of jq aren't willing to take a few minutes to understand how stream programming works. That investment pays off in spades.

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1. penguin_booze ◴[28 Oct 25 07:15 UTC] No.45729949[source]▶
I'm a big fan of jq but won't credit its man page with much. There were (ineffable) insights that I picked up through my own usage over time, that I couldn't glean from reading the man page alone. In other words, it's not doing its best to put the correct mental model out for a newish user.