How this project compares to gojq ?

[kpym]

There is another go project gojq which also implements the jq syntax and works with yaml files as well as json. How this two projects compare?

[mikefarah]

yq has been built specifically to handle yaml - so it handle multi-docs yaml files, comments, aliases, merge anchors, styling, tags and has operators specifically to manipulate that metadata, and does its best to keep that formatting (though it's not perfect) when editing.

I also noticed that gojq doesn't keep the order of map keys.

I'm sure there are other differences too.

[kpym]

@mikefarah Thanks for all these infos. Indeed the main difference seems to be that gojq targets primarily json and yaml is the icing on the cake. While yq primarily targets yaml with all that follows.

Great project, thanks!