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> A new format is a really weird way to go about fixing a problem that already has a solution.

Stripping comments before handing off to a JSON parser is not a full solution. For example, if the file has to be augmented with additional data and written out again, the comments would be lost.

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Formatting would be lost too (multiple newlines, array formatting, wrap limits, etc), and the order of keys. There are two separate tasks: comment json for a human and ignore that on parse(), and maintain pretty-json with all its usefulness programmatically with parseWithSyntaxStructure(). We shouldn’t mix them into one single problem, because in one case you just want multiple readers (a human and a computer) and in the other you want to rich-edit a human representation on its own.

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