JSON5 Data Interchange Format: "JSON for humans"

JSON is simplified subset of JavaScript data syntax.
Adding a few more JS features to JSON would help usability.

The JSON5 Data Interchange Format (json5.org)

"The JSON5 Data Interchange Format (JSON5) is a superset of JSON that aims to alleviate some of the limitations of JSON by expanding its syntax to include some productions from ECMAScript 5.1.

Similar to JSON, JSON5 can represent four primitive types (strings, numbers, Booleans, and null) and two structured types (objects and arrays)."

json5/json5: JSON5 — JSON for humans @GitHub

example:

{
  // comments
  unquoted: 'and you can quote me on that',
  singleQuotes: 'I can use "double quotes" here',
  lineBreaks: "Look, Mom! \
No \\n's!",
  hexadecimal: 0xdecaf,
  leadingDecimalPoint: .8675309, andTrailing: 8675309.,
  positiveSign: +1,
  trailingComma: 'in objects', andIn: ['arrays',],
  "backwardsCompatible": "with JSON",
}

this may be one of most downloaded on NPM? Weekly Downloads: 55,801,906

json5 - npm

json - npm search

GitHub Search · json5

json vs json5 vs yaml | npm trends (json5 = 3 * yaml) 

there are also official "readonly" versions in DotNet (C#) and GoLang (go) JSON5 @github

json5/json5-dotnet: The official implementation of JSON5 for the .NET Framework

json5/json5-go: The official implementation of JSON5 for the Go language

septag/cj5: Very minimal single header JSON5 parser in C99, derived from jsmn

kimushu/json5pp: JSON (ECMA-404 and JSON5) parser & stringifier for C++11

dpranke/pyjson5: A Python implementation of the JSON5 data format

Python

brimworks/json5.java: JSON5 library for Java

Currently, this library is about 20x SLOWER than using Jackson.

google/json5format: JSON5 (a.k.a., "JSON for Humans") formatter that preserves contextual comments

Rust

ANTLR parser grammar for JSON5

json5/JSON5.g4 · master · mirrors / antlr / grammars-v4 · GitCode

JSON5 syntax - Visual Studio Marketplace

JSON5 – JSON for Humans | JSON5

JSON5 is an extension to the popular JSON file format that aims to be easier to write and maintain by hand (e.g. for config files). It is not intended to be used for machine-to-machine communication. (Keep using JSON or other file formats for that. 🙂)

here is WHY: it is SLOW

skad0/json_vs_json5_perfomance: quick benchmarking for json and json5

JSON5#parse x 327 ops/sec ±6.58% (31 runs sampled)
JSON#parse x 5,940 ops/sec ±5.23% (76 runs sampled)
JSON5#stringify x 1,270 ops/sec ±1.38% (85 runs sampled)
JSON#stringify x 13,748 ops/sec ±2.06% (84 runs sampled)