JSON Limitations & Comments
Discussions center on JSON's key shortcomings like lack of comments, multi-line strings, and parsing issues, with advocacy for extensions like JSON5 and debates on its specifications.
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Can you explain what is lacking in JSON? What is poorly specified or buggy?
This is exactly right. Comments in JSON would have killed it.
JSON has a different set of problems, e.g. not having multi-line string support.
JSON doesn't support comments is a big one (even though many people now are outright rebelling against this and storing "jsonc" inside .json files)
If JSON had comments, I'd be fine with it.
Nitpick: that's an issue with JavaScript, not JSON.
I find that JSON5 does too much.
The only problem with json is that you can't do comments with the default implementation.
Why is parsing JSON a problem in 2016 ?
It's already invented and JSON w Comments is a lot simpler than JSON5 to parse