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		nerdponx on Sept 28, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: That's a Lot of YAML If JSON had comments and trailing commas we probably wouldn't have YAML.

dheerajvs on Sept 29, 2023 | [–]

Both JSON5 and JSONC have those features. There is a discussion[0] on the VS Code repo to use JSON5 format instead of JSONC for the settings file.

[0]: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/100688

cryptonector on Sept 28, 2023 | | [–]

Use jq then. It has comments, though no trailing commas (we could fix that).

As a bonus using jq code as configuration gets you templating for free.

totallywrong on Sept 28, 2023 | [–]

Nah, I'd still pick YAML any day.

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