Switch state files and extensions to be stored as JSON instead of pickle #849
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Pickle is Python's internal method to serialize and deserialize memory to text, and it can store things JSON can't. But JSON is a better format for compatibility with external tools to change settings (#712) or just to read the files and understand what they are storing. In addition we've had many issues with it when migrating python versions (ex: #290 #464)