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A Common Lisp jq replacement

Published on: 2025-07-29 00:15:48

What's a song or album that you enjoy that you wish had more recognition? How often do you discover music? And how do you discover music? Do you listen to the radio? If so, how often? What song or album are you currently listening to? A Common Lisp jq replacement Title says it all, I seriously dislike jq 's convoluted, impossible-to-remember ad hoc DSL that instantly joined heaps of misery like CMake and gnuplot in my heart. It should really have been a library with a CLI wrapper around eval in a well-known scripting language like Python. And I'm not the only one I've heard complain about this, yet it's the one that seized the mindshare and thus became easy to find in any package repository (sometimes even preinstalled) and with the most copy-paste fodder on the web. It won for the usual reasons: lack of serious competition at the time, enough flexibility to manage most tasks with enough pain and elbow grease and now inertia. But me, I've reached my enough is enough! point and d ... Read full article.