If you're going down that route, you could also consider jsonnet <https://jsonnet.org/> (which does have a Go implementation <https://github.com/google/go-jsonnet>)
It will almost certainly be much more powerful than you need, but it *is* another superset of JSON which includes comments. On Sunday, 20 March 2022 at 13:16:20 UTC christoph...@gmail.com wrote: > You might want to try qjson that I wrote a year ago ( > https://github.com/qjson). > It's basically just one function that converts qjson text into json. Qjson > is inspired by hjson, but extend it in many ways. > It is convenient for config files. > > Maybe I extend it a bit too far by supporting unquoted strings or single > quoted strings. Lol > > > Le samedi 19 mars 2022 à 01:03:17 UTC+1, ben...@gmail.com a écrit : > >> Yeah, Go's encoding/json will almost certainly never support json5. >> However, one very simple approach: if you're using JSON for a config file >> and just need ability to add // line comments, you can just write a simple >> transformer which reads the file line by line and filters out lines that >> start with "//" (optionally preceded by whitespace), and then send the >> result to encoding/json. >> >> On Friday, March 18, 2022 at 1:59:21 PM UTC+13 r...@rwx.gg wrote: >> >>> It is my sincere hope that Go will never support anything as poorly >>> designed as JSON5, using reflection is already slow enough. Comments were >>> never intended for JSON and never should be added, ever. But since most >>> discerning development shops are moving to Protobuf for everything that >>> matters, perhaps that would be less of a problem. >>> >>> On Monday, March 14, 2022 at 12:07:37 PM UTC-4 fliter wrote: >>> >>>> I need to add comments to json, but now json version does not support it >>>> >>> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/a43994e7-176f-48b2-a732-f174d171b434n%40googlegroups.com.
