Comment by ivaniscoding

8 hours ago

Shameless plug, but you might like this: https://github.com/IvanIsCoding/celq

jq is the CLI I like the most, but sometimes even I struggled to understand the queries I wrote in the past. celq uses a more familiar language (CEL)

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xpe  7 hours ago

CEL looks interesting and useful, though it isn't common nor familiar imo (not for me at least). Quoting from https://github.com/google/cel-spec

    # Common Expression Language

    The Common Expression Language (CEL) implements common
    semantics for expression evaluation, enabling different
    applications to more easily interoperate.

    ## Key Applications

    - Security policy: organizations have complex infrastructure
      and need common tooling to reason about the system as a whole
    - Protocols: expressions are a useful data type and require
      interoperability across programming languages and platforms.

  • ivaniscoding  7 hours ago

    That’s some fair criticism, but the same page tells that the language wanted to have a similar syntax to C and JavaScript.

    I think my personal preference for syntax would be Python’s. One day I want to try writing a query tool with https://github.com/pydantic/monty