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JSON With Commas and Comments
Summary: JWCC is a minimal extension to the widely used JSON file format with
(1) optional commas after the final element of arrays and objects and (2) C/C++
style comments. These two features make it more suitable for human-editable
configuration files, without adding so many features that it’s incompatible
with numerous other (deliberate and accidental) existing JSON extensions.
Update on 2021-02-26: This new file format is not a particularly novel or
profound ‘invention’, for those already familiar with JSON. The point is that
people keep wanting it and re-inventing it, so we might as well give it a