[stock_toaster]

Seems like they could have used something a bit nicer to work with too (yaml, libucl, hocon, etc). I am honestly getting tired of editing fiddly json (no comments, last element in list can't have a comma, etc) all over the place.

[user5994461]

You can use hjson for human editable json.

http://hjson.org/try.html

Human editable json, with comments, and doesn't kill you for a lack of trailing comma.

Available libraries in tons of languages.

[stock_toaster]

That actually looks pretty nice. Thanks for the link!

[wstrange]

Given Google's involvement, I am wondering why they did not choose jsonnet?

[user5994461]

Hopefully, it was avoided on purpose because it's a complete nightmare to use.

[wstrange]

Honest question: How so?

I have not used it in anger - just played around with it.

[user5994461]

Too much indirection.

You get big files filled with variables, loaded from other big files also full of variables. It's hard to know what you are setting after a while or where it comes from.

After a while playing with configuration systems, I'm starting to think that configuration should just be hardcoded once and for all.

[Edmond]

I would rather contact you directly but your profile is empty.

I would like to introduce you to HiveMind described here: http://blog.crudzilla.com/2016/10/managing-configurations-wi...

It addresses the issues that JSSONET does without inventing a new templating language.

I am happy to give a skype demo, email me if interested.