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Re:MessagePack: like JSON, but fast and small by Zarel on Thursday March 12, 2020 @11:32AM (#22557880)
JSON5 is a good alternative, mentioned a few times in this thread. JSON, plus comments, trailing commas, and object keys can be unquoted. Solves all my frustration with using JSON as a config file language.
Re:MessagePack: like JSON, but fast and small by iainmerrick on Thursday March 12, 2020 @03:18PM (#22560659)
Wow, I hadn’t heard of this before, even after reading other replies to this post! Looks pretty nice, hits just about every point on my personal wishlist. I’m going to use this.