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1. Is there a name/"standard" for the format gron is transforming json into?

2. Thesis: jq is cumbersome when used on a json input of serious size/complexity because upfront knowledge of the structure of the json is needed to formulate correct search queries. Gron supports that "uninformed search" use-case much better. Prove me wrong ;)

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1. There isn't really a name for it, but it's a subset of JavaScript and the grammar is available here specified in EBNF, with some railroad diagrams to aid understanding: https://tomnomnom.github.io/gron/

2. That's pretty much exactly why I wrote the tool :)

gron outputs Javascript!

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