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Comment by zobzu | Hacker News Reader

HJSON seems a lot simpler and closer to JSON than YAML.

And.. yeah, for human processing/reading/writing, ignoring trailing commas and having comment does improve JSON IMO.

I don't know why JSON is so strict in fact. Virtually everyone forgets to NOT have the last comma of a list all the time.

Now then again HJSON is +1 standard and incompatible with JSON so im not sure how that'll take off.

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But YAML is a superset of JSON.

But if you start leaving commas out of your JSON, it's no longer valid YAML.

Not only can you omit the commas, you can even omit the braces.

JSON:

    { 'one': 1, 'two': 2 }

YAML:

    one: 1
    two: 2

I don't know about your comma statement. I never have a problem writing symantically correct JSON by hand - though there are limited use cases where you should need to do so anyway. If your IDE isn't marking invalid JSON syntax you need a better IDE.

I dont think syntax highlighting should excuse an unnecessarily complex syntax

`join(',')` is complex? Also why is this even an issue? Use a JSON library.

having enforced commas except for the last in list is complex. if you're just looking for a random useless argument, go to the bar.

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