jq does often feels like a code golf language. I would say it does have some of those Perl one liner vibes, that is to say that it is often a write-only language.
Also the ‘nearly’ part is because I don’t remember if it has infinite loops or if it is more like Starlark and thus decidable. I do have vague recollections of causing infinite cycles in JQ, it quite as well could be entirely Turing complete.
So far I have not found a single task that JQ was incapable of. And I have abused it pretty bad on my spare time =], for intellectual challenge.
Also the ‘nearly’ part is because I don’t remember if it has infinite loops or if it is more like Starlark and thus decidable. I do have vague recollections of causing infinite cycles in JQ, it quite as well could be entirely Turing complete.
So far I have not found a single task that JQ was incapable of. And I have abused it pretty bad on my spare time =], for intellectual challenge.