Comment by petersumskas
7 hours ago
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.