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Nothing planned but there has been some talks about it. https://github.com/jqlang/jq/issues/2855 is probably the lastest issue mentioning it

gojq has support for yaml input (via a very annoying argument name) and also has the golang property of "curl binary; chmod; profit": https://github.com/itchyny/gojq#difference-to-jq

Its error reporting is also clang-vs-gcc level wizardry, and I often use it to get a helpful message instead of "ENOWORKY" from jq (I haven't tried 1.7 yet, so it could be better for all I know)

that's awesome!

I'd personally use that, but in the context of sharing scripts and snippets with colleagues, the strength of the incumbent `jq` is that we can all assume everybody will have it installed on their machine.

Not yet, but jq is getting into the kind of shape where we could add support for lots of formats. I'd like to have support for various binary JSON types (e.g., CBOR, but maybe too JSONB and others), YAML, and XML.