It's not JSON, so why does it need to look like JSON? If you want a complicated human read-writable config format, it exists already: YAML. As for your questio

It's not JSON, so why does it need to look like JSON? If you want a complicated human read-writable config format, it exists already: YAML. As for your question: of course it's possible. Write a tool that translates between your preferred format and JSON. Set up your development environment to automatically convert between the two formats when editing JSON files.