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WOW, I didn't know that you could speak for the ENTIRE WORLD.

Personally, I find this at the very least interesting and possibly useful. The lack of comments in JSON is a problem when it comes to annotating configuration stored as JSON. But we have other formats that do not have this limitation (INI, YAML are two examples).

I really like the idea of "Human-Optimized" config, because it is more important for code and config to be understood by humans than by machines.

We're using it for distributed app configuration management at $work because Typesafe accepts it.

No complaints about hocon itself, but Typesafe configs get applied in first-value-wins which is a continual source of ... amusement ... for developers.

Wow, first value wins seems like a really horrible idea, any insight into why that choice got made?

There seems to be a confusion. First value wins - is in no way how hocon works. Just take a look at the examples

I'm pretty sure the last value wins, but maybe don't understand what you mean.

Available evidence indicates otherwise.

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