Array of objects howto

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Morning,

Thanks for a great shell only library. I am looking at the docs on using the jb @./file:{} functionality to generate valid JSON structures.

How can I use this to generate an array of objects from a file that is structured like the following:

key=value,item=foo,bar=baz
key=123,item=456,bar=zxy
key=tango,item=uniform,bar=bravo

To something like the following

[
  {
     "key":"value",
     "item":"foo",
     "bar":"baz"
  },
  {
     "key":"123",
     "item":"456",
     "bar":"zxy"
  },
  {
     "key":"tango",
     "item":"uniform",
     "bar":"bravo"
  }
]

Some benchmarking may have put this beyond reach as on a hundred records, using jb @./file:{} took 71minutes to complete. Provided this was in a resource constrained VM. Maybe this functionality is a limit for the shell however.

Thanks for any pointers on how to accomplish this.