> > > I agree. Those would be the points with most impacts. However, the >> outcome would be quite far away from standard JSON, so we would really be >> talking about something like ASON or SDL already. >> > > There are some beginnings like this one: > > http://json5.org/ >
Here's another, that supports tables: https://github.com/krisnye/ion Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be any decently popular winner of the 'extended JSON' language, apparently most are fine with just adding comments. YAML might be a choice, but I find it diverges a bit too far (and I'm not a fan of significant whitespace).
