A very impressive pedigree! ESS has a Changelog with entries for 1990!
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It's perhaps appropriate that a programming language database has its own syntax for entries! https://github.com/breck7/pldb/commit/bde872b5b8e1cf9fb3114c1fbf3c40e405b5388d
It looks like a simplified YAML I think.
Sometimes it's a real pain that JSON doesn't support comments. One positive consequence is that 'npm install' is always able to programmatically add new entries.
Cargo's TOML is much harder to edit in a way that preserves comments, though solutions now exist.
http://t.co/h7elhFU0jD is excellent, and I'm struck by how many entries are just using contextual data.