jq is a single binary which I can easily just drop into a remote server or throw into my ~/.local/bin, where as JSONata requires NPM.
Yea what's going on here, you have a couple of other comments pushing Jsonata?
You an author or something?
Not at all. After using jq in the past and seeing both it's potential and flaws I was looking for something more powerful and easy to use, so I stumbled upon JSONata and became a fan.
It doesn't appear to have a CLI, which is the whole point of jq