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TOML is pretty good but it gets too verbose when you add bunch of arrays.

All we need is to revise official JSON standard(ECMA 404) to include comments.

And trailing commas. And unquoted keys.

Why are unquoted keys so critical? I feel like one of the strengths of a DDL like JSON or XML is that it's easy to tell what the data (key-value pair or otherwise) is, while with YAML and others, understanding data-vs-structure can be challenging.

Mostly so copy between JS and JSON isn’t such a PITA.

It’s not essential, but if we’re already changing the format we might as well?

> All we need is to revise official JSON standard(ECMA 404) to include comments.

That would be a step back for GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Kubernetes, Google App Engine, and a bunch of other projects which use YAML and seldom encounter the Norway problem. https://hitchdev.com/strictyaml/why/implicit-typing-removed/

That's fine. They should not have used a format made for data to describe what essentially is code.

Why shouldn't they have?

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