I like it. What do other ppl say? from the original issue there was also talk about generator variants of min/max, add those too?

from the original issue there was also talk about generator variants of min/max, add those too?

Done

Adding a stream-oriented add is long-overdue, so my hope is that its introduction will not be delayed by potentially contentious issues.

Adding stream-oriented versions of min, max, min_by, and max_by would be fine, but it seems to me that existing implementations in C should be retained, both for the sake of efficiency and perhaps to facilitate future C-oriented development.

Maybe the best would be to have one narrowly focused PR for add; and one or more separate ones for the rest.

It looks like min/1 and max/1 have been attempted before, and met the same concerns regarding jq vs C performance:

• faster/simpler version of transpose, with stream-oriented min and max #2679

Perhaps it would be prudent to discuss the best approach for min/1 and max/1 in #2595 first?

For now, I'll revert this PR to focus solely on add/1

Friendly ping