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		auxym on March 22, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ffcms – FFmpeg's -filter_complex made simple JSON is really unfriendly for human editing. Notably, lack of comments, and trailing commas being strictly forbidden. JSON5 seems like a decent alternative to either.

spider-mario on March 22, 2020 [–]

I have a soft spot for https://jsonnet.org/ myself.

https://github.com/mbrt/gmailctl uses it for example.

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