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		whatevaa 3 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why I stopped using JSON for my APIs Json doesn't support comments specifically to not allow parsing directives, that means less customization. More customization of interoperability protocols is not always a good thing.

cryptonector 2 days ago [–]

The compiler I [occasionally] work on does not abuse comments for directives. All directives in that compiler are out of band.

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