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Re:JSON as configuration files: please don’t (2016) by int_19h on Saturday April 13, 2019 @09:16PM (#19656901)
Many implementations of JSON - especially the ones that parse human input - allow trailing commas for this exact reason.
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Re:JSON as configuration files: please don’t (2016) by rmetzler on Sunday April 14, 2019 @10:06AM (#19659484)
You may be right, some JSON parsers even support comments. But you never know which parser is strict and which not, because it's not part of the specification.
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