Not implementing key-sorting is a curious decision:
> gojq does not keep the order of object keys. I understand this might cause problems for some scripts but basically, we should not rely on the order of object keys. Due to this limitation, gojq does not have keys_unsorted function and --sort-keys (-S) option. I would implement when ordered map is implemented in the standard library of Go but I'm less motivated.
I feel like --sort-keys is most useful when it is producing output for tools that do not understand JSON - for example, generating diffs or hashes of the JSON string. There is value in the output formatting being deterministic for a given input.
> gojq does not keep the order of object keys. I understand this might cause problems for some scripts but basically, we should not rely on the order of object keys. Due to this limitation, gojq does not have keys_unsorted function and --sort-keys (-S) option. I would implement when ordered map is implemented in the standard library of Go but I'm less motivated.
I feel like --sort-keys is most useful when it is producing output for tools that do not understand JSON - for example, generating diffs or hashes of the JSON string. There is value in the output formatting being deterministic for a given input.