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story by tosh · 2026-01-21 · 0 comments

…but in both cases, it preserves all EDN data types and originates from the Clojure language. https://github.com/cognitect/transit-format

comment by delaguardo · 2025-11-25 · in A fast EDN (Extensible Data Notation) reader written in C11 with SIMD boost

…[2]... Elegant weapons for a more civilized system. [1] https://github.com/edn-format/edn [2] https://github.com/cognitect/transit-format

comment by slowmovintarget · 2021-11-14 · in YAML: It's Time to Move On

…Fiction","~:books",[["^ ","~:id", ... edit: apparently this is "transit JSON" https://github.com/cognitect/transit-format

comment by geoah · 2021-03-09 · in Show HN: Zeneca – Share and discuss your favorite books

…exceptionally well designed for what they are and deserve to be part of this discussion. [1]: https://github.com/cognitect/transit-format [2]: https://github.com/edn-format/edn

comment by eyelidlessness · 2021-01-25 · in On the complexity of JSON serialization (2020)

…tps://blog.klipse.tech/clojure/2016/09/22/transit-clojure.... Otherwise the canonical source is here: https://github.com/cognitect/transit-format

comment by diggan · 2020-11-12 · in Volt: A reactive web framework where your Ruby code runs both server and client

…under S-Expressions), Transit [1] and Fressian [2][3]. [0] https://github.com/edn-format/edn [1] https://github.com/cognitect/transit-format [2] https://github.com/Datomic/fressian/wiki [3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JArZqMqsaB0&ab_cha…

comment by hcarvalhoalves · 2020-10-23 · in Better Than JSON?

…/ YAML)? If so, how does Concise Encoding differentiate itself? https://github.com/edn-format/edn https://github.com/cognitect/transit-format https://github.com/Datomic/fressian/wiki

comment by valw · 2020-10-04 · in Show HN: Concise Encoding – a friendly data format for human and machine

…- extensible data notation (subset of Clojure's syntax) - Transit (https://github.com/cognitect/transit-format) - format for conveying values between languages - Fressian (https://github.com/Datomic/fressian) - extensible bin

comment by puredanger · 2020-06-05 · in A History of Clojure [pdf]

And edn https://github.com/edn-format/edn And transit https://github.com/cognitect/transit-format

comment by puredanger · 2020-06-04 · in A History of Clojure [pdf]

…a Clojure standard for sending Clojure data structures back and forth between frontend and backend: https://github.com/cognitect/transit-format It's cool to see some practical Clojure examples on hacker news.

comment by simongray · 2020-04-05 · in General Transit Feed Specification and Clojure

…I guess it would require a very nice package to market it, the way rails did with ruby. -- transit: https://github.com/cognitect/transit-format cljs-bean: https://github.com/mfikes/cljs-bean

comment by emmanueloga_ · 2020-02-21 · in State of Clojure 2020

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Transit: A Data Interchange Format

story by tosh · 2019-05-09 · 0 comments

…I think). 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2V1FtfBDsLU 2: https://github.com/edn-format/edn 3: https://github.com/cognitect/transit-format

comment by emmanueloga_ · 2018-10-13 · in Arguing against using protobuffers

Transit: https://github.com/cognitect/transit-format Transit has the following features: - self-describing - allows extension types on top of base types - strong value types + dynamic serialization - can transparently pass through data…

comment by abernard1 · 2018-10-10 · in Arguing against using protobuffers

Do you know of Transit? https://github.com/cognitect/transit-format

comment by phyrex · 2018-06-04 · in Data serialization

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Transit data interchange format

story by sethev · 2018-02-05 · 0 comments

Transit tries to solve the same problem with JSON https://github.com/cognitect/transit-format

comment by smnplk · 2017-03-15 · in STON – Smalltalk Object Notation (2012)

You could use JSON as a host: https://github.com/cognitect/transit-format I do like the comment about having the S-expression format for data interchange defined since 1997.

comment by slowmovintarget · 2017-03-14 · in Son – A minimal subset of JSON for machine-to-machine communication

…Both are only really used within the Clojure community. I use Transit for internal-facing APIs. [0] https://github.com/cognitect/transit-format

comment by grayrest · 2016-10-26 · in Parsing JSON is a Minefield

JSON was fixed in 2014: http://blog.cognitect.com/blog/2014/7/22/transit https://github.com/cognitect/transit-format

comment by JBiserkov · 2016-08-20 · in Fixing JSON

Have you also looked at Transit? https://github.com/cognitect/transit-format

comment by room271 · 2016-02-03 · in Show HN: ION, a JSON alternative – Versatile, compact, fast, binary data format

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Transit: JSON Data Interchange Format

story by dedalus · 2015-10-14 · 118 comments

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Transit: JSON Data Interchange Format

story by dedalus · 2015-10-13 · 0 comments

also https://github.com/cognitect/transit-format

comment by dustingetz · 2015-08-17 · in Netflix Releases Falcor Developer Preview

Transit [1] can do this for you. [1] https://github.com/cognitect/transit-format

comment by emidln · 2015-07-08 · in Om Next – David Nolen [video]

How does this compare to something like transit[1]? [1]: https://github.com/cognitect/transit-format

comment by mstade · 2014-10-19 · in Show HN: Teleport – Lightweight JSON types

I think [Transit][1] by Cognitect addresses this issue as well. [1]: https://github.com/cognitect/transit-format#caching

comment by _ducky · 2014-09-14 · in Show HN: Homogenius – Packer/unpacker to reduce the size of JSON

From the examples, it looks like JSON and EDN are both first-class "transport" formats for Transit: https://github.com/cognitect/transit-format/tree/master/exam...

comment by dgreensp · 2014-07-27 · in A Closer Look at Transit

The actual spec is here: https://github.com/cognitect/transit-format

comment by ciniglio · 2014-07-22 · in Transit – A format for conveying values between different languages