[eliben]

That's an ugly workaround, not a solution. It helps breed half-baked "solutions" like the "pipe through jsmin" Crockford himself suggests.

Ultimately, it makes JSON unsuitable for configuration files (there are other reasons for that, to be fair, like over-verboseness)

[oneeyedpigeon]

Not necessarily. If you're naming your keys nicely, and using an easily-understandable structure, for simple config files, you shouldn't really need comments.

[eliben]

"simple config files" implies an optimist. Good for you, sir.