[Sanddancer]

Unfortunately, it suffers from the huge problem of not having any comments, which was what the original poster was pointing out. Configuration is code that happens to be interpreted at runtime. Having to dig through uncommented code at two in the morning sucks, especially when you're trying to figure out why your automated code and/or config generator just failed. Yes, having to write a config file by hand sucks, however, there are still enough cases out there where you end up having to do just that, and JSON makes the problem of keeping them lucid all the more difficult.

[benley]

My suggestion, in general, is to use a static language like jsonnet to write config files. It's rather hard for them to break, because the language just isn't capable of talking to the network or various other things that config files shouldn't do. I do agree with you, and I would really prefer to have apps use formats that allow some sort of commenting, but I can live with json - by letting the computer deal with it.