I prefer JSON to YAML as well. The lack of comments is a problem though. But I feel like this is a false dichotomy. Both kind of suck for this need, but I can a

I prefer JSON to YAML as well. The lack of comments is a problem though. But I feel like this is a false dichotomy. Both kind of suck for this need, but I can accept that JSON is at least reasonable to work with if you need language agnostic config.