$ bash ./perl.com --version
This is perl 5, version 36, subversion 0 (v5.36.0) built for x86_64-cosmo
(with 3 registered patches, see perl -V for more detail)
One reason to prefer gojq is that gojq’s author is one of the most knowledgeable person for the original jq (as seen by GitHub PRs and issues), and his gojq fixes many long standing issues in jq.
Plus, for my use cases, gojq runtime performance beats jq by a fair margin.