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		divbzero on July 22, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Rise and Rise of JSON (2017) Cool! JSON5 looks intriguing. The core project implements a JavaScript module [1] but it looks like there are also experimental JSON5 libraries for Go [2], Python [3], Ruby [4], and Rust [5]. [1]: https://www.npmjs.com/package/json5 [2]: https://github.com/yosuke-furukawa/json5 [3]: https://pypi.org/project/json5/ [4]: https://github.com/bartoszkopinski/json5 [5]: https://docs.rs/json5/ I noticed that JSON5 doesn’t include a Date type. There have been discussions about this in both the JavaScript [6] and spec [7] repos but with no resolution yet. [6]: https://github.com/json5/json5/issues/3 [7]: https://github.com/json5/json5-spec/issues/4

divbzero on July 22, 2020 [–]

What would really help JSON5 take off is if it gets bundled with browsers by default. For now it doesn’t seem all that appealing to add

  <script src="//unpkg.com/json5/dist/index.min.js"></script>

to every HTML page as extra JavaScript instead of a native browser implementation.

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