alt Hacker News> I just wonder why JSON doesn't get all the hate, while it is a terrible format also: […] it doesn't have comments […]
The lack of comments in JSON is not a bug; comments in JSON were an anti-feature. Douglas Crockford intentionally removed them to prevent developers from using comments to store parsing directives (which he saw people doing in earlier revisions).
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I'd say that only really strengthens OP's overall point of being about using "the wrong language for the wrong thing".