[hashcatHitman]

Renovate recommends we prefer using a .jsonc file if we want to add comments to our configuration, instead of a .json5 file. I'm not sure what their reasoning is, but here are my reasons:

• VSCode/VSCodium do not and will not support JSON5, and require third-party extensions for it.
• None of the extensions that do so are particularly widespread or well maintained, and I don't really want to install an extension like that for a file format that can definitely just be avoided.
• I think unquoted JSON keys are weird and a misfeature.

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[apiraino]

ah, standards! (you already know where the link leads, right 😉 )

I have no dog in this fight but looking at Wikipedia, it looks like that:

• JSON5 is an ECMAScript standard adding trailing commas, unquoted object keys, single quoted and multiline strings, additional number formats, and comments
• JSONC (json with comments) is a proprietary extension of Microsoft that only adds comments - so no surprise they don't want to support JSON5

[hashcatHitman]

ah, standards! (you already know where the link leads, right 😉 )

Sadly.

• JSONC (json with comments) is a proprietary extension of Microsoft that only adds comments - so no surprise they don't want to support JSON5

Yeah. Love it or hate it though, the JSON5 support in VSCode and friends is quite poor. And given VS Code was the single most popular editor in the last three Annual State Of Rust surveys (by a decent margin) (which isn't necessarily including derivatives like VSCodium, listed separately), I think it makes sense to prefer JSONC anyway.

Anyway, I don't feel super strongly about this, but it has been mildly annoying me. So I figured I'd just see where this goes.