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jsonata

JSONata query and transformation language - http://jsonata.org

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1Explicit recommenders
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What it is

JSONata query and transformation language - http://jsonata.org

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Where it is used

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What people are saying

To be frank the ascendance of jq has always seemed weird to me. There are many alternatives that felt much more natural, as this thread demonstrates. JSONata remains pretty…

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 1:49:46 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year3 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2019-05-18 22:07:09 UTC to 2025-10-30 11:12:40 UTC.

012019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20222023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025

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20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
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20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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cookiecaper·Jan 7, 2020Recommendation phrase
To be frank the ascendance of jq has always seemed weird to me. There are many alternatives that felt much more natural, as this thread demonstrates. JSONata remains pretty obscure but it's been my favorite JSON query/mangling DSL for a while now: https://github.com/jsonata-js/jsonata. jmespath is also quite natural, but I think it was hurt by reference implementation in Python, meaning it's quite slow. http://jmespath.org/
In Show HN: jql – Easier jq Alternative with a Lispy Syntax Written in Go

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