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Add support for dangling comma

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Domain
localization

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The issue names only the ARB specification and tools that consume .arb files; no repository entry point or test is identified. First locate the specification and consuming tools, then determine the required scope and tests for accepting trailing commas across them; done means the intended ARB behavior and affected tools are covered.

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Description

I’d like to request support for dangling commas in .arb files. While I understand that ARB is based on JSON, many modern JSON parsers and linters allow for trailing commas (like json5), and they bring several practical benefits:

  • Cleaner diffs in version control
  • Avoiding unnecessary merge conflicts
  • Easier editing and reordering of entries

Would it be possible to support dangling commas in the ARB spec and in the tools that consume ARB files?

Let me know if this is something you’d consider or if there’s a reason it’s intentionally disallowed.

Thanks again!

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