HOCON is meant to be a friendlier JSON, looks like? At first glance, it has some nice ideas but takes it way too far -- just the table of contents on that repo looks longer than a summary of JSON in its entirety.

Skimming through it, concatenation of unquoted values is where it goes off the rails for me. This is quite the gotcha: https://github.com/lightbend/config/blob/master/HOCON.md#not...

My wishlist for a friendlier JSON would be, in priority order:

- Allow trailing commas

- Comments

- Allow newlines instead of commas

- Allow unquoted dictionary keys

And I think that’s it. I’m not even sure the last one is worth the extra complexity.