JsonConfigReader is a proxy for [golang's io.Reader](http://golang.org/pkg/io/#Reader) that strips line comments and trailing commas, allowing you to use json as a *reasonable* config format. Comments start with `//` and continue to the end of the line. If a trailing comma is in front of `]` or `}` it will be stripped as well. Given `settings.json` { "key": "value", // k:v // a list of numbers "list": [1, 2, 3], } You can read it in as a *normal* json file: package main import ( "encoding/json" "fmt" "github.com/DisposaBoy/JsonConfigReader" "os" ) func main() { var v interface{} f, _ := os.Open("settings.json") // wrap our reader before passing it to the json decoder r := JsonConfigReader.New(f) json.NewDecoder(r).Decode(&v) fmt.Println(v) }