Why JSON for configs?

[Koncord]

JSON isn't designed for the configurations, by standard, it even does not support comments. In my opinion, would be better to stick with INI or move to the standardized INI - TOML.

[np-c0mp1ete]

@Koncord We are definitely open to consider other formats. I deleted the JSON mentioning from the readme and added a link to this discussion instead.
Current config format is far from adhering to any standard. That stops us from throwing away all the custom config parsing code and using some third-party library instead.

[Jihadist]

What about xml? Xml is faster than json/yaml and provides more opportunities than ini.

[Hammie]

XML is a lot harder read/write (for humans).
And json/toml parsers can also be a lot faster then XML parsers, though I do not think it matters that much for our use-case.

[freeman53]

You can use yml format

[Hammie]

I think toml has a syntax very similar to yml