JSON with comments would go a long way

petersumskas 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Douglas Crockford addressed this many years ago: write your human readable config with comments and run it through a pre-processor to strip them out before handing the config to a JSON parser. Seems like almost no one picked up on the idea.

	▲	ulrikrasmussen 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		That is such a horrible non-solution. It breaks all tooling which isn't aware of your particular preprocessor and adds a compilation step to every configuration.
	▲	benhurmarcel 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		> write your human readable config with comments The question then becomes: what format is that?

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krapp 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Use Lua tables. Lua's parser is smaller than many JSON parsers, the syntax is almost the same and you can use comments.