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I find JSON has a great balance between programmatic handling and human readability. But this leads to it being bit verbose.
I wrote about three tools in my toolbox for handling JSON on command line: jq, jless and fx.
Do you use something different? Share tips in replies!
Juha-Matti Santala - Community Builder. Dreamer. Adventurer. · Handling JSON on command lineJSON is a good format for programmatic use but it’s rather verbose to read and traverse unless you use JSON specific tooling. In this post I take a look at a few options: jq, jless and fx.
@hamatti tbh I’m so bad at jq, I often use the Python interpreter to deal with JSON. 
Also I try to use protobuf a lot nowadays, especially for internal RPCs.
@shimst3r I also often jump into Python whenever my jq (or shell scripting) skills fall short.
) and haven’t gone back to jq since.