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The json parsing library that parses the config file allows either syntax. That was intentional since we get in the habit as go programmers of ending lines in structs/maps with commas, it's just for convenience.

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Serious question though, why use "JSON" at all then? You can just admit it's JWCC, which is fine, at least that's a distinct term -- but even that's not a spec, it's just a blog post that very few people even know about. Even that same blog post endorses using TOML, the spec generally preferred for things that may need to be human-edited. It meets humans half-way a lot better than even JWCC, which is the kind of practicality I think even Grug would prefer.

https://nigeltao.github.io/blog/2021/json-with-commas-commen...

And while we're at it:

https://www.arp242.net/json-config.html

https://dzone.com/articles/why-json-isnt-a-good-configuratio...

https://revelry.co/insights/development/json-configuration-f...

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