I agree that JSON isn't a very good syntax for humans to produce. But I think Tom Limoncelli has already written most that needs to be said: http://everythingsy

I agree that JSON isn't a very good syntax for humans to produce. But I think Tom Limoncelli has already written most that needs to be said: http://everythingsysadmin.com/2015/06/toml-vs-json.html http://everythingsysadmin.com/2015/06/toml-vs-json.html I prefer yaml for deep nesting over toml, though. But whatever the config syntax, comment-preserving parsing would be very nice for config files.