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I removed comments from JSON because I saw people were using them to hold parsing directives, a practice which would have destroyed interoperability. I know that the lack of comments makes some people sad, but it shouldn't. Suppose you are using JSON to keep configuration files, which you would like to annotate. Go ahead and insert all the comments you like. Then pipe it through JSMin before handing it to your JSON parser.
JSMin [2001] is a minification tool that removes comments and unnecessary whitespace from JavaScript files.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)In 1996, Macromedia launches Flash technology which occupies the space left by Java and ActiveX, becoming the de facto standard for animation on the client side.
The primary goal is: keep the semantics (tree structure; set of types; encoding/escaping) from JSON, but make it more convenient as a human-editable config file format.
2017-12-13 [...] RFC published
Type: RFC - Internet Standard (December 2017; Errata); Obsoletes RFC 7159; Also known as STD 90
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)It is based on a subset of the JavaScript Programming Language, Standard ECMA-262 3rd Edition - December 1999.
JSON is a subset of the object literal notation of JavaScript.
I removed comments from JSON because I saw people were using them to hold parsing directives, a practice which would have destroyed interoperability. I know that the lack of comments makes some people sad, but it shouldn't. Suppose you are using JSON to keep configuration files, which you would like to annotate. Go ahead and insert all the comments you like. Then pipe it through JSMin before handing it to your JSON parser.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)In 1996, Macromedia launches Flash technology which occupies the space left by Java and ActiveX, becoming the de facto standard for animation on the client side.
JSON is a subset of the object literal notation of JavaScript.