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Re:JSON as configuration files: please don’t (2016) by jcelerier on Saturday April 13, 2019 @03:27PM (#19655218)
> "Lack of programmability" is a feature

if you ever have a non-programmable config file, then at some point someone will make a turing-complete programming language which goes on top of your tool.

Re:JSON as configuration files: please don’t (2016) by ihuman on Sunday April 14, 2019 @01:19AM (#19657733)
Or, if it's open source or an interpreted language, they could edit the code of the tool to implement whatever new features they want.