[devongovett]

We use json5, which allows comments.

You cannot statically cache the results of a .js file - it might include objects or functions that cannot be serialized, and might cause side effects that parcel cannot know about. If we supported .js config files, we would have to intentionally limit what you can return to basically just JSON, so you wouldn’t get much benefit from it and it would be hard to enforce.

[orf]

Oh right! Thank you for your clarifying comments, this does sound pretty interesting. Sorry for being flippant before.

Looking forward to reading about the new release!