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by seec 266 days ago
Exactly. And with a proper color scheme it is so much easier to "parse" a document as a human. But JSON popularity is linkend to the web and javascript so not much that can be done. Coming up with new ambiguous markups just for config files is just a waste.

I really don't get it; the whole point of computing is to make stuff rigorous and precise so that you don't have to run a whole guesstimate translation layer as you need to with humans.