I really like this, I think I'd find it useful fairly often and I like the idea of just making something that I use irregularly but not that rarely a bit better.

But then I found it's in C#. And apparently the CLI app isn't even published any more (apparently nobody wanted it? Surprises me but ok). Anyway, I don't think I want this enough to install .NET to get it, so that's that. But I'd have liked a version in Go or Rust or whatever.

I'm the maintainer of FracturedJson. The decision to stop publishing a binary for the CLI version was made a long time ago: fewer features, fewer users, less mature .NET tooling (as far as I knew). And as you say, .NET isn't a common language for distributing CLI tools.

I plan to take a new look at that when I have the time. But a port to a more CLI-friendly platform could probably do a better job.

I really liked the idea, so I am porting it to Rust https://github.com/fcoury/fracturedjson-rs

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