A brief interview with JSON creator Douglas Crockford

I think I still have a copy of Javascript: The Good Parts somewhere around here.

JSON lack of comments is their worst error.

YAML near the user and JSON for the rest.

> JSON lack of comments is their worst error.

Comments were an anti-feature:

> I removed comments from JSON because I saw people were using them to hold parsing directives, a practice which would have destroyed interoperability. I know that the lack of comments makes some people sad, but it shouldn't.

> Suppose you are using JSON to keep configuration files, which you would like to annotate. Go ahead and insert all the comments you like. Then pipe it through JSMin before handing it to your JSON parser.

* https://web.archive.org/web/20190112173904/https://plus.goog...

Discussion at the time (2012):

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3912149

Super brief, he got a remarkable like I did !