<story><title>Jq Internals: Backtracking (2017)</title><url>https://github.com/stedolan/jq/wiki/Internals:-backtracking</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>guelo</author><text>For a tool I only use very occasionally I find jq&amp;#x27;s syntax to be too unique with too steep of a learning curve. Every time I reach for it I have to spend a bunch of time reading the manual trying to think like it does.&lt;p&gt;I wish there was something for querying json that had more of a xpath or even a sql-like syntax, or GraphQL with the addition of wildcards.</text></comment>
<story><title>Jq Internals: Backtracking (2017)</title><url>https://github.com/stedolan/jq/wiki/Internals:-backtracking</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>agumonkey</author><text>Quite impressive sophistication level for such a &amp;#x27;small&amp;#x27; utility.&lt;p&gt;Very inspiring read :)</text></comment>