Convert CSON syntax file to JSON

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
42/100
Issue type
Refactor
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
javascript, json
Domain
tooling

Research direction

The issue does not name a source file or test; start by locating the CSON syntax definition in this repository and reviewing the linked VS Code syntax-highlight guidance. Convert the definition to JSON, then verify that the result parses and preserves the existing syntax definitions.

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Description

The original source file is written in CSON, which is difficult to read and the tools needed to maintain it are relatively out of date or obsolete. Additionally, some of the features used in the CSON formatting, like comments in multi-line regex matches, cause the converted formatting to be difficult to parse (and I'm not 100% sure the end result is valid - it probably is, but debugging is made worse by it).

The syntax definitions should be converted from CSON to JSON (and maybe YAML in the future, as suggested by the docs).

Dominant language
JavaScript
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Forks
25
Avg merge
3d 19h
Merged PRs (30d)
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