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[–] tiramichu@sh.itjust.works 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

My biggest peeve with JSON when I'm forced to use it as a configuration format is that it doesn't have any syntactical support for comments.

So I can't even add any notes to the file.

[–] lightnegative@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Yep this for me too. Thankfully VSCode allows comments in its settings.json / launch.json files but most programs use strict JSON which doesn't allow comments

[–] vinnymac@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Yea, this is a deal breaker imo. My code tends to be 10 to 1 comments to lines of code ratio. Configuration even more so.

jsonc/json5 exists for this use case, but few tools actually use it, yaml is far more popular