New features in 1.5 since 1.4:
- regular expressions (with Oniguruma)
- a library/module system
- many new builtins
- datetime builtins
- math builtins
- regexp-related builtins
- stream-related builtins (e.g., all/1, any/1)
- minimal I/O builtins (`inputs`, `debug`)
- new syntactic features, including:
- destructuring (`. as [$first, $second] | ...`)
- try/catch, generalized `?` operator, and label/break
- `foreach`
- multiple definitions of a function with different numbers of
arguments
- command-line arguments
- --join-lines / -j for raw output
- --argjson and --slurpfile
- --tab and --indent
- --stream (streaming JSON parser)
- --seq (RFC7464 JSON text sequence)
- --run-tests improvements
- optimizations:
- tail-call optimization
- reduce and foreach no longer leak a reference to .
in the first place, but I somehow missed it.
Unfortunately there is no changelog, just a git history, with no indication
of which are the important changes. However a lot of bugfixes are included.
The main pkgsrc change in 1.2 is that there is now a manual page.
jq is a lightweight and flexible command-line JSON processor.
jq is like sed for JSON data – you can use it to slice and filter and
map and transform structured data with the same ease that sed, awk, grep
and friends let you play with text.
