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Ugh no. Adding all that crap complicates writing a correct parser. JSON's value is in that it is easy to parse.

If editing JSON is your problem, use a better editor. If you really want to use JSON as a config file format, use something like YAML instead.



Or TOML, if you find YAML's syntax too messy.




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