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		Sankozi 4 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: JEP 540: Simple JSON API (Now in Incubator) Using JSON as a configuration format is a big mistake. JEP authors could learn a bit from package.json problems. Hope JSON will not be used in anything significant for JDK configuration.
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Groxx 4 days ago [–]

Yeah - json is fine as a readable mechanical exchange format, but without comments it's essentially unusable for anything humans need to touch :/

I'm somewhat boggled that json5 hasn't grown to be more of a thing.

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