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Re:JSON as configuration files: please don’t (2016) by 11235813213455 on Saturday April 13, 2019 @06:31PM (#19656161)
I don't feel pain with vscode's settings.json, or .eslintrc for example, because they are autocompletable, allow comments (json5), allow trailing commas (json5), ...
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Re:JSON as configuration files: please don’t (2016) by int_19h on Saturday April 13, 2019 @09:27PM (#19656957)
Unfortunately, it's not actually JSON5, it just supports a few features from the spec.

But yes, if every implementation of JSON moved on to JSON5, I don't think we'd be having this discussion.

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