HOCON is meant to be a friendlier JSON, looks like? At first glance, it has some nice ideas but takes it way too far -- just the table of contents on that repo

HOCON is meant to be a friendlier JSON, looks like? At first glance, it has some nice ideas but takes it way too far -- just the table of contents on that repo looks longer than a summary of JSON in its entirety. Skimming through it, concatenation of unquoted values is where it goes off the rails for me. This is quite the gotcha: https://github.com/lightbend/config/blob/master/HOCON.md#note-arrays-without-commas-or-newlines https://github.com/lightbend/config/blob/master/HOCON.md#not... My wishlist for a friendlier JSON would be, in priority order: - Allow trailing commas - Comments - Allow newlines instead of commas - Allow unquoted dictionary keys And I think that’s it. I’m not even sure the last one is worth the extra complexity.