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Re:JSON5 – JSON for Humans by thayne on Monday December 09, 2024 @01:11AM (#42363442)
> The only thing that JSON is really missing are comments and trailing commas.

And multi-line strings. You don't always need that, but when you do, it's absence is very painful.

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Re:JSON5 – JSON for Humans by stkdump on Monday December 09, 2024 @02:57AM (#42363916)
Agreed. The workaround (arrays of strings) isn't great as it means an extra transformation has to be done between the reader and the usage. I would go so far as to say this is more important than comments.
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