On: YAML: Probably not so great after all

[Waterluvian]

I just want json with comments. Is that too much to ask?

[roryokane → Waterluvian]

Someone else already mentioned JSON5 (https://json5.org/), which is JSON with a few ergonomic improvements, including comments. Hjson (https://hjson.org/) is a similar, slightly more complex format with a few extra features such as unquoted strings for object values.

[zeroimpl → Waterluvian]

I just want mainstream/built-in JSON parsers to be able to ignore comments and trailing commas. What ever happened to lax parsing?

[worble → Waterluvian]

https://json5.org/