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> lack of comment syntax no matter how annoying it is that the spec is correct about why there are no comments This completely arbitrary ideological purity has
by jimmaswell 4y ago
> lack of comment syntax no matter how annoying it is that the spec is correct about why there are no comments
This completely arbitrary ideological purity has come at the expense of countless wasted hours, headaches, and suboptimal workarounds like using strings as comments, with zero tangible benefit - zero bad things would have ever happened if JSON allowed comments. There is nothing correct about it.
- singingfish 4y agoI dunno about that. I remember how microsoft were back in the IE days. They could have used comments for really bad stuff.