This has already been discussed to great detail and HOCON was decided upon. Work is already being done in this direction and backtracking to pick some other config format would just waste time. Why not look into HOCON and see what advantages it has to offer? As for the development team’s reasoning, this will be made more clear as time moves on. They had good reasons for choosing this format. This topic should be closed as to prevent further misinformation.
Forge is also using HOCON already, so that saves us some library duplication (although JSON is also available).
oooh…HOCON… im liking HOCON… quite similair to a gradle bildscript…