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by wvenable 4699 days ago
JSON did support comments for a time and people were starting to use it for meta data.

The problem is that JSON is not meant to be used a configuration file format and just because it's really good for information exchange, doesn't mean it's good for configuration (and vice-versa). Configuration really requires comment support and information-exchange is better avoiding it. Two standards are needed.