isn't that question like "cinema besides the movies"?

the user experience. jq is often a one liner, terse and expressive. This jsoniq language looks almost like a scripting language, requiring multiple lines to write an expression.

I have multiple 30+ lines jq scripts in my current project. So "often a one liner" is true, but it is not a requirement, so I'm still not sure why use this instead.

no, language is not just syntax.

Nor is the cinema just movies.

so if cinema isn't just movies then what's the problem with asking about the difference in "cinema besides the movies"?

it's senseless besides nit-picking.

that's just like your opinion man.

> JSONiq borrows a large numbers of ideas from XQuery

So basically grep or even sql ->xquery. No thank you!