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by merelysounds 261 days ago
This is a popular question, the most common answer I’ve seen is:

> Commas exist mostly to help JSON be human-readable. They have no real syntactic purpose as one could make their own notation without the commas and it'd work just fine.

https://stackoverflow.com/a/36104693

Elsewhere such commas can be optional, e.g. in clojure: https://guide.clojure.style/#opt-commas-in-map-literals