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JSON with comments

Recently I saw a thread on twitter about various techniques for hacking comments into JSON:

While this is clever, it... makes me feel icky.
Why was this done?
Presumably because creating your own file format ("JSON with comments"),
along with a JSON-with-comments to JSON "compiler" which strips the comments out,
was seen as being too difficult.
But is it?
jsonc-to-json.sh:
#!/bin/bash
# Produces a .json file by stripping the comments from a .jsonc file.
infile=$1
outfile=`basename $infile .jsonc`.json
cat $infile | sed '/[[:space:]]*\/\//d' > $outfile

Nope. 😎


Might as well throw in an example Makefile 😃:
foo.json: foo.jsonc
	jsonc-to-json.sh foo.jsonc