Hjson - Data notation

Hjson is an open source data notation created in 2014 by Christian Zangl.

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Download source code:

git clone https://github.com/hjson/hjson

Hjson is a syntax extension to JSON. It's NOT a proposal to replace JSON or to incorporate it into the JSON spec itself. It's intended to be used like a user interface for humans, to read and edit before passing the JSON data to the machine.

Tags: dataNotation
Hjson is developed on GitHub and has 2,647 stars
Early development of Hjson happened in https://github.com/hjson
Hjson is written in JSON, HTML, Markdown, JavaScript, CSS, XML, SVG, Bash
hjson.org was registered in 2015

Example from the web:

{
 # hash style comments
 # (because it's just one character)

 // line style comments
 // (because it's like C/JavaScript/...)

 /* block style comments because
    it allows you to comment out a block */

 # Everything you do in comments,
 # stays in comments ;-}
}

Language features

Feature	Supported	Example	Token
MultiLine Comments	✓	/* A comment */	/* */
Comments	✓	# A comment
Line Comments	✓	# A comment	#
Semantic Indentation	X