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The discussion above concerns why JSON isn't a good choice for configuration files. That's exactly because configuration files are not human readable binary files.

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TBH. I find package.json files to be much much much much nicer files than configure.sh or settings.txt files, even a configure.py.

And if that isn't the case for you, not like you don't have the choice.

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