| ▲ | petersumskas 5 hours ago | |
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 3 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. | ||
| ▲ | seanhunter 14 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
> Seems like almost no one picked up on the idea. Seems to me more like almost no one thought the idea was any good. | ||
| ▲ | benhurmarcel 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
> write your human readable config with comments The question then becomes: what format is that? | ||