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		strags on April 13, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: JSON as configuration files: please don’t (2016) HSON ( https://hjson.org/ ) addresses a lot of this. Just allowing trailing commas and adding comments reduces 90% of the friction involved.

user5994461 on April 13, 2019 [–]

And most importantly it can consume JSON just fine. No need to learn yet another language.

Also fully convertible to json (without comments) if there is ever a need to change format or to interface with another system that can only understand json.

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