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Sounds like https://json5.org/  i actually used the extension .rjson for my syntax extensions. Advantage of TOML is that there's a mature parser in every single mainstream language.

Is that advantage relevant to rome?

OMG Seb pls make “.sebjson” or something the world needs a config format that’s almost as easy to parse as JSON but slightly more humane

Could you design a JSON++ file format so that it’s trivially convertible to JSON? Then it’s a matter of stripping the comments/quoting keys then using any JSON parser? JSON5 seems like too many extensions…

My custom JSON format has regexes, NaN, sigint, Infinity, Dates, optional key quotes, trailing commas, comments (retained when serializing), optional curly braces at the top level etc. So more extensions than even JSON5. But more opinionated, only double quotes for strings etc.

This sounds awesome why would you not use this

I got self conscious when I did the Rome deep dive for the RN + React team because I got feedback that I spent too long talking about it and that it seemed friviulous and made my focus seem frantic

Too long talking about the config format, you mean? It distracted from Rome itself?