It is just that people keep insisting on using JSON for human-maintained configuration files, and JSON sucks for that: no comments, trailing commas, or multi-li

It is just that people keep insisting on using JSON for human-maintained configuration files, and JSON sucks for that: no comments, trailing commas, or multi-line strings. Since JSON5 is trivially pre-processed into JSON, it tends to be useful as a tack-on to such projects to let your startup scripts generate the real file given the useful on without having unrelated syntax.