Use Lua tables. Lua's parser is smaller than many JSON parsers, the syntax is almost the same and you can use comments.
On the web? In wasm? I'd much rather use a new format. MAML's parser is 2kb of js gzipped according to the repo and very fast.
On the web? In wasm? I'd much rather use a new format. MAML's parser is 2kb of js gzipped according to the repo and very fast.