That is very cool! For other readers, "process" means submit jq-like document queries, and "various formats" means other JSON or JSON-like representations, such as BSON, Bencode[1], TOML, XML, and YAML. Thank you for sharing!

[1]: In 2001, prior to the huge popularity of JSON, it is an ASCII-coded dict+string+int+list format used in Bittorrent .torrent files.

If you'd like to avoid cgo, you can use a pure go implementation of jq called gojq: https://github.com/itchyny/gojq

Thanks for this link. If you'd like to create a GitHub issue, I'd appreciate it. My justification for linking to libjq is that it's a moving target: there are various builtins added across updates etc...