Douglas Crockford addressed this many years ago: write your human readable config with comments and run it through a pre-processor to strip them out before handing the config to a JSON parser. Seems like almost no one picked up on the idea.
That is such a horrible non-solution. It breaks all tooling which isn't aware of your particular preprocessor and adds a compilation step to every configuration.
Douglas Crockford addressed this many years ago: write your human readable config with comments and run it through a pre-processor to strip them out before handing the config to a JSON parser. Seems like almost no one picked up on the idea.
That is such a horrible non-solution. It breaks all tooling which isn't aware of your particular preprocessor and adds a compilation step to every configuration.
> write your human readable config with comments
The question then becomes: what format is that?
> Seems like almost no one picked up on the idea.
Seems to me more like almost no one thought the idea was any good.
JSON5 is what that is called and it already has wide support.
This is answered in the FAQ
Use Lua tables. Lua's parser is smaller than many JSON parsers, the syntax is almost the same and you can use comments.
On the web? In wasm? I'd much rather use a new format. MAML's parser is 2kb of js gzipped according to the repo and very fast.