alt Hacker NewsAs much as i like this (yaml goes way too far, but trailing commas and comments would make json much nicer. I actually think this spec goes too far with single quotes) i hate that it is named json5. I think its unethical to imply you are the next version of something if you don't have the blessing of the original author.
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I think the name just means that it sits in-between JSON and ES5 (i.e., it's a superset of JSON and subset of ES5).
edit: well as this comment thread indicates, the name is pretty confusing for everyone :)
The parser for tsconfig.json (typscript.parseConfigFileTextToJson(fileName, jsonText) or parseJsonText) seems to be what you want; I wonder if there is a name for that format.
Could also be construed as paying homage, though. I think the number 5 here is a reference to congruence with ECMA Script 5 rather than to imply a version of JSON.
Single quotes are useful for string contents containing many double quotes (e.g. XML).
I always thought that the name JSON5 pretends to be nothing more than a pun on Michael Jackson's original band, The Jackson 5. It sounds too similar!
If it didn't originate from that, what else?
Even when the original author said it was "discovered"?
JSON5 is closer to "javascript object notation" than JSON itself. It's partly an update and partly a removal of arbitrary restrictions.