Comment by mdaniel

It may be fine for hello-world stuff, but how would one JSONPath this?

  echo '[{"name":"_skip"},{"name":"alpha"},{"name":"_other"}' | \
    jq '[ .[] | select(.name|test("^_.*")|not) | . ]'

The same is roughly true for JMESPath, also, although at least it does actually try to allow projections and some limited functions