jaq vs JSON OS

jaq is a free jq clone for querying and transforming data, available as both a command-line replacement and a Rust library for compiling and running jq programs. Alongside JSON, it handles YAML, CBOR, TOML, XML, CSV, and TSV, and can convert between those formats while applying a jq filter. Its jaq-core library supports multithreaded use and data types beyond JSON. jaq also accepts arbitrary values as object keys and can process strings containing arbitrary bytes, including invalid UTF-8. The project publishes benchmarks comparing jaq with jq and gojq, and reports faster results on many benchmarks. It states that jaq is memory-safe and prevents input data or filters from initiating I/O, although filters may read files before execution. The project also warns that it does not guard against resource exhaustion, so processing may use unlimited time, memory, or stack space. Binary downloads and installation instructions are provided for Linux, macOS, and Windows, and an online playground is available. jaq is MIT-licensed.

JSON OS is a free, browser-based workbench that pairs a JSON editor with Markdown Studio, a Markdown previewer. The maker says it needs no signup and that processing runs locally in a Web Worker, with data stored in IndexedDB and nothing leaving the device. The JSON workspace supports up to three panes and can open or accept dropped files. Data can be viewed and edited as a tree, text or table, with table columns switched independently. The editor formats, beautifies, minifies and sorts JSON keys, validates against JSON Schema with Ajv format checks, and repairs malformed input such as smart quotes, comments and unclosed brackets. It compares two documents side by side and supports MongoDB-style filters; JSON arrays can be exported to CSV with a UTF-8 BOM. Markdown Studio supports GitHub-Flavored Markdown, Mermaid, KaTeX, highlighted code and embeds from services including YouTube, Vimeo and GitHub Gist. It sanitizes rendered HTML through DOMPurify, stripping scripts and untrusted iframes. Markdown can be exported as source, copied as rendered HTML or downloaded as standalone HTML.