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The page addresses that there are other alternatives/supersets. I think the most common one that has decent adoption is JSON5.

I would like to see why the author chose to do yet another format, vs adopt JSON5.

I find that JSON5 does too much.

What are your specific dislikes?

In general, I dislike the extra complexity JSON5 brings.

For example, allowing identifiers as object keys.