Hacking Comments Into JSON
JSON does not natively support comments, which is OK, but sometimes a comment could really help.
If the application loading the JSON does not care about additional keys we can simply add a key with our favorite comment indicator like // or #.
{ "//": "This setting enables not just A, but somehow also B", "enable_feature_a": true } Tip
While this works consider using a different file format better suited for configuration.
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