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Comment by Powdering7082 | Hacker News Reader

I am kind of surprised that they don't mention jq at all, it seems like a similar tool that is fairly wide spread.

Well, the article is about JSONPath and jq doesn't use it

Same. I was curious what the differences are.

JSONPath can only pull data out, like XPath. jq can do much more, like perform transformations.

jq is also more concise:

  .book[0].title

versus JSONPath:

  $..book[0].title

jq is wonderful but not relevant to the discussion.

This is about using JSONPath for OpenAPI Overlays and automated API Style Guides like Spectral.

You cannot use jq for either of those things.

Notbing against jq, just a different discussion.