• PBS Tidbit 8 – Interview with jq Maintainer Mattias Wadman

  • Aug 6 2024
  • Length: 1 hr and 5 mins
  • Podcast

PBS Tidbit 8 – Interview with jq Maintainer Mattias Wadman

  • Summary

  • In this Tidbit version of Programming By Stealth, Bart Busschots interviews Mattias Wadman, one of the maintainers of the jq project. This was great fun as we just finished learning jq in Programming By Stealth.

    Read an unedited, auto-generated transcript with chapter marks: PBS_2024_08_06

    You can find out more about Mattias & the various projects he is working on at the links below:

      Follow Mattias on Mastodon: @wader@fosstodon.org

      Mattias’ GitHub Profile which hosts some notable jq-related projects:

        fq for querying binary files with the jq language: github.com/wader/fq

        • A list of presentations about fq — github.com/…
        • The fork of the Go version of jq that powers fq — github.com/…

        The language definition file for adding jq support to IDEs like VS Code: github.com/wader/jq-lsp

        jq implemented in jq: github.com/wader/jqjq

      Some notable jq commits & files mentioned during the interview:

      • The very first commit in Haskel
      • The switch to C
      • jq’s main function which is written in jq — https://github.com/…

      A version of jq implemented in Go: github.com/itchyny/gojq

      A version of jq implemented in Rust by Michael Färber: github.com/01mf02/jaq

      • Michael’s formal specification of the jq language — github.com/…
      • The “Denotational Semantics and a Fast Interpreter for jq” academic paper by Michael
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