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My biggest peeve with JSON when I'm forced to use it as a configuration format is that it doesn't have any syntactical support for comments.
So I can't even add any notes to the file.
Yep this for me too. Thankfully VSCode allows comments in its settings.json / launch.json files but most programs use strict JSON which doesn't allow comments
Yea, this is a deal breaker imo. My code tends to be 10 to 1 comments to lines of code ratio. Configuration even more so.
jsonc/json5 exists for this use case, but few tools actually use it, yaml is far more popular