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by tieTYT 4698 days ago
Yeah maybe you don't use JSON for config files that need comments, but that's because there's no documented way of how to put comments in JSON. The article solved the problem.

Actually, I'm 100% playing the devils advocate here. I'll even flip-flop to prove it. Regarding the article, I doubt that every JSON parser will let this slide. To me that's an even better reason to avoid this practice.

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> Regarding the article, I doubt that every JSON parser will let this slide. To me that's an even better reason to avoid this practice.

If someone uses undefined behaviour in config files for the sake of storing a comment, I reserve the right to hunt them down if I have to maintain their code.