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The reason it won is "most popular(and only) web language used it".

I'm not saying it's bad, I'm saying it didn't won on technical merits.

I do dislike people using them for configs tho, even indented the readability is just "okay", the ease of change is worse than YAML (even with all it's problem), especially forcing no trailing `,` is just plainly obnoxious.



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