Comment by petersumskas

Comment by petersumskas 5 hours ago

3 replies

Douglas Crockford addressed this many years ago: write your human readable config with comments and run it through a pre-processor to strip them out before handing the config to a JSON parser. Seems like almost no one picked up on the idea.

ulrikrasmussen 4 hours ago

That is such a horrible non-solution. It breaks all tooling which isn't aware of your particular preprocessor and adds a compilation step to every configuration.

benhurmarcel 4 hours ago

> write your human readable config with comments

The question then becomes: what format is that?

seanhunter an hour ago

> Seems like almost no one picked up on the idea.

Seems to me more like almost no one thought the idea was any good.