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title: "fx"
url: https://perrotta.dev/2025/11/fx/
last_updated: 2025-11-24
---


[fx](https://fx.wtf/) is the new [`jq`](https://jqlang.org/)
([via](https://andre.arko.net/2025/06/13/fx.wtf/)):

> I'm a longtime user of jq, but its language is… not intuitive to me. I spent a
> lot of time searching for prewritten jq programs I can use, or reading the
> docs trying to figure out the exact thing that I want to do. Mostly, I think
> to myself "why do I have to learn a new language to manipulate JSON" every
> time I use it, even if my use is successful and does the thing I want.

> Good news, you don't have to learn a new language to filter JSON anymore,
> thanks to fx. With a docs site at the excellent domain fx.wtf, and the ability
> to filter interactively or by providing Javascript as arguments, fx is the
> program I have always wished that jq was.

Definitely adding it to my tool belt.

I did some experimentation and it seems to be very user-friendly and intuitive
to use.