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>making it less human friendly (arguably the thing that made JSON so popular in the first place)

I would not call a JSON human friendly due to its lack for comments.

You might be interested in JSON5 (http://json5.org/) which goes the opposite direction of Son and makes JSON more human-writeable. It's the best, cleanest "JSON+" I've found so far.

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