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		CrLf on Nov 23, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Architecture of Open Source Applications: Ngin... Not allowing comments doesn't make JSON an "ok-ish" config format, it makes it completely _unsuitable_ for it.

rdtsc on Nov 23, 2015 [–]

But it is used though pretty oftne. That's why it is an -ish format ;-)

You can do things like

   {
     "comment": ["blah blah comment message"],
     "k1" : "v1", "k2" : "v2", ... 
   }

Or some silliness like that.

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