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Agreed. I wish json5 had become, or becomes the standard. https://json5.org/ https://json5.org/

• djur 5y ago
  One of the virtues of JSON is that you can break it into parseable chunks by line, which also enables stuff like line-delimited JSON streams. JSON5 seems like a good format for a configuration file, though.
  • johnny22 5y ago
    some folks even specced it via https://jsonlines.org/ https://jsonlines.org/ and http://ndjson.org/ http://ndjson.org/
  • timeon 5y ago
    That reminds me SAX parsing.
• j1elo 5y ago
  The problem with JSON alternatives is that now I come to say that I wish HJSON [0] had become or becomes the standard... so now we have the N+1 Standards xkcd comic strip again [0]: https://hjson.github.io/faq.html https://hjson.github.io/faq.html