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Reason number 1: aliases and anchors. Reason number 2: allowing comments.

JSON is a terrible config format, and an ok data interchange format.




Agreed. It amazes me that we got out of the XML-for-everything era with a lot of people thinking the problem was XML, and not the for-everything part. JSON-for-everything is just as maddening to me.




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