Because it follows the general principle of making it easier to change [0]. Fewer edits, cleaner diffs. Useless from the perspective of a wire format, but nice

Because it follows the general principle of making it easier to change [0]. Fewer edits, cleaner diffs. Useless from the perspective of a wire format, but nice for things like config files, which seem to be the use cases json5 is targeting. [0] Bullet pt 3: https://betterprogramming.pub/5-essential-takeaways-from-the-pragmatic-programmer-6bb3db986294 https://betterprogramming.pub/5-essential-takeaways-from-the...