[drschwabe]

`Template literals ie- multiline strings without needing escape or newline characters is a signficant advantage of JS object over JSON`

some will argue that scripting would thus be possible if the config was simply JS but that is a rabbit hole both on the debate itself and then the potential compexlity of config; there are trade-offs for/against but not a settled matter IMO as there are major projects like neovim that support full fledged config scripting (in the case of neovim they allow use of Lua)