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139 points robin_reala | 2 comments | 20 Aug 16 18:08 UTC | HN request time: 0.429s | source

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dlbucci ◴[20 Aug 16 18:22 UTC] No.12327731[source]▶

At this point, I'd settle for JSON5 (http://json5.org/), which says any JSON that's a valid ECMAScript 5 object is valid JSON (including trailing commas, unquoted keys, single quote strings, and comments). I don't think it's very popular at this point though, but I guess I've never tried to use it.

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1. colanderman ◴[20 Aug 16 19:29 UTC] No.12327981[source]▶

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Ugh no. Adding all that crap complicates writing a correct parser. JSON's value is in that it is easy to parse.

If editing JSON is your problem, use a better editor. If you really want to use JSON as a config file format, use something like YAML instead.

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2. majewsky ◴[21 Aug 16 12:52 UTC] No.12330758[source]▶

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Or TOML, if you find YAML's syntax too messy.

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