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Not a fan http://hjson.org . JSON’s syntax is strict and not feature-full because JSON is meant to be generated, not written by hand

The more complex you make JSON, like HJSON, you will without a doubt come into numerous edge cases and different handling between parsers

@oscargodson agreed - cool thing about JSON is that it's well understood and not overly complex; breaking that is

@yoshuawuyts Like multiline strings and the fact comments can start /*, //, or #. All of those complicate the parser significantly

@oscargodson I think TOML took the right approach here - take the essence (nested hash maps) and design from scratch - probably works better

@yoshuawuyts TOML is a nice looking format. It’s still super complicated parsing wise: https://github.com/BinaryMuse/toml-node/blob/master/lib/parser.js … vs https://github.com/douglascrockford/JSON-js/blob/master/json_parse.js …