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JSON should be banned for configuration, if only for the fact it doesn’t support comments.
Use HJSON, json with comments that doesn't kill you for a trailing comma. All the benefits of JSON, no new syntax to learn, easy to fit in place in new or existing systems. https://hjson.github.io/
All languages should make unnecessary characters optional like trailing semicolons and commas.
I hope this catches on some more. I'm tired of being bitten by all the issues that I encounter with yaml configs.
Of configuration file formats, TOML is my favorite. It hits the right balance of power and simplicity, it's been able to handle my needs with minimal effort and fuss. I tried Python's INI for configuration, but it was both too simple and too complex at the same time, very frustrating. YAML is a nightmare, the formatting is way too easy to get wrong and accidentally break your configuration. JSON is too strict/simple.…
I never liked that anything I pulled from a config file was never checked by typescript, so I just went simple with TS itself.
I understand if I use another language within the same project, it'll be a problem but until then this can't be beaten.