Comment by BoingBoomTschak

1) You realize the boilerplate of reading and serializing can be abstracted, right?

2) I didn't say "replace jq with Python", but that the language part (not the functions) of jq is horrible and didn't need to be invented. Same as Avisynth vs Vapoursynth.

3) I only mentioned Python as an example, I wouldn't choose a language that needs newlines in this specific case.

For example, in my own case, this expression is `cljq '(? $ "Reservations" * "Instances" * "PrivateIpAddress")` and if I need to do more complicated stuff (map, filter, group, etc...), I use CL instead of a bespoke, ad-hoc DSL that I never remember.

> JSONPath is a straight up farce

Why? At least it's specified (though you might say that jq is too, through jaq).