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No support for comments? Hard pass
Yeah, this is my biggest annoyance with JSON. As a data structure it's very elegant, but it only really makes sense to people who know how to code, and without the ability to add comments you have to rely heavily on external documentation to make it readable to most users.
And like yeah, both the wonderful (and foss!)
.json5and Microsoft's semi-proprietary(?).jsoncexist, but most projects just use their language's default JSON parser that doesn't recognize them. What I would personally love to see is.json5support baked into the default JSON parsing libraries of Python, Go, etc. (Enabled by a flag, likely.) It's a superset of regular JSON and fully ES2019 compatible, so there shouldn't be any issues.