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Shameless plug: Human JSON, http://hjson.org

A different approach to using JSON for configuration files. It sits between JSON and YAML.

I like the idea. I like that you even round-trip comments. I suppose that doesn't add too much complexity to the implementation?

Have you ever been bitten by the dwimmy typing of numeric and true/false/null data?

No, the whole implementation is actually very simple. It's based on the 'standard' parsers for JS/C#/Python and only differs for handling quoteless stings and the optional syntax.

No problems with dwimmy typing ;) - not saying that it couldn't happen but I think that would be the exception. Not having to use quotes/escape characters helps a lot more.

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