alt Hacker NewsThat's a good call. It's a big problem for JSON configs given pure JSON's strict no-comments policy. I like tools that let you use .js or better yet .ts files for config.
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mikkupikku • today at 11:33 AM
A lot of json parsers will permit comments even though it isn't meant to be valid. Worth trying it, see if a comment breaks the config, and if not then use comments and don't worry about it.
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Or consider jsonc - json with comments - or jwcc - which is json with comments and trailing commas to make life a little easier.
https://jsonc.org/
https://nigeltao.github.io/blog/2021/json-with-commas-commen...
There are a lot of implementations of all of these, such as https://github.com/tailscale/hujson