rcl

RCL (https://github.com/ruuda/rcl) pretty-prints its output by default. Pipe to `rcl e` to pretty-print RCL (which has slightly lighter key-value syntax, good if you only want to inspect it), while `rcl je` produces json output. It doesn’t align tables like FracturedJson, but it does format values on a single line where possible. The pretty printer is based on the classic A Prettier Printer by Philip Wadler; the algorithm is quite elegant. Any value will be formatted wide if it fits the target width, otherwise tall.

The author of this article created RDL: > RCL is a domain-specific language for generating configuration files and querying json documents. It extends json into a simple, gradually typed, functional programming language that resembles Python and Nix. https://github.com/ruuda/rcl https://rcl-lang.org

Or if you write it by hand at all, use RCL, then you can also abstract away the repetitive parts: https://github.com/ruuda/rcl/blob/master/examples/vega.rcl

The RCL configuration language, https://rcl-lang.org / https://github.com/ruuda/rcl. Lately I'm working on support for floats to complete the json superset promise. Also I added a shorthand for "query --format=raw" to make it more useful as a jq replacement.

I have that same problem, the advanced features I use too little to remember. Then I started working on a configuration language that should have a non-surprising syntax (json superset, mostly inspired by Python, Rust, Nix). And it turns out, this works well as a query language for querying json documents. https://github.com/ruuda/rcl Here is an example use case: https://fosstodon.org/@ruuda/111120049523534027