alt Hacker News> Compatibility is a key factor here, so we'd want to go with base-level JSON. I'd prefer being able to have trailing commas in lists, but not enough to make life hard for someone implementing this without access to a JSON5 parser.
Everyone has access to a JSON5 parser. Everyone has to suffer for the sake of a few people who don't to pay the trifling tax of pip installing something --- when they're using an external library for a novel file format _anyway_?
> Everyone has access to a JSON5 parser.
That's just a lack of imagination. When you're making a product for teams that span everything from a brand new startup using the latest tooling to teams that are working on software that runs on embedded systems from the 90's, you need to consider things like this.