Many JSON parsers has flags to enable comment parsing (and someone went ahead and made a "standard" called JWCC that seems to be more or less what these parsers

Many JSON parsers has flags to enable comment parsing (and someone went ahead and made a "standard" called JWCC that seems to be more or less what these parsers accept) I think that is a good tradeoff, JSON being strict for data interop with the possibility of enabling comments for those cases where people use it for configuration (and specifying it as JWCC)