html_url,issue_url,id,node_id,user,user_label,created_at,updated_at,author_association,body,reactions,issue,issue_label,performed_via_github_app
https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1274#issuecomment-805214307,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/1274,805214307,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDgwNTIxNDMwNw==,7476523,bobwhitelock,2021-03-23T20:12:29Z,2021-03-23T20:12:29Z,CONTRIBUTOR,"One issue I could see with adding first class support for metadata in hjson format is that this would require adding an additional dependency to handle this, for a feature that would be unused by many users. I wonder if this could fit in as a plugin instead; if a hook existed for loading metadata (maybe as part of https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/860) the metadata could then come from any source, as specified by plugins, e.g. hjson, toml, XML, a database table etc.

Until/unless this exists, a few ideas for how you could add comments:
- Using YAML as you suggest.
- A common pattern is adding a `""comment""` key for comments to any object in JSON - I don't think including an unnecessary key like this would break anything in Datasette, but not certain.
- You could use another tool as a preprocessor for your JSON metadata - e.g. hjson or Jsonnet. You'd write the metadata in that format, and then convert that into JSON to actually use as your final metadata.","{""total_count"": 1, ""+1"": 1, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",839008371,Might there be some way to comment metadata.json?,
https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1274#issuecomment-805216038,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/1274,805216038,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDgwNTIxNjAzOA==,9599,simonw,2021-03-23T20:14:53Z,2021-03-23T20:14:53Z,OWNER,"Yes this is one of the main reasons I'm planning to switch to encouraging YAML be default instead of JSON (while still supporting JSON) - YAML supports comments and multi-line strings.

See #1153 for YAML by default in the documentation.","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",839008371,Might there be some way to comment metadata.json?,