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EDN is great. https://github.com/edn-format/edn

comment by sooheon · 2020-04-12 · in YAML: Probably not so great after all (2019)

If JSON was almost right, why not EDN? https://github.com/edn-format/edn

comment by carry_bit · 2020-03-03 · in The growth of command-line options, 1979-Present

EDN is a lispy data notation with exactly those conventions: https://github.com/edn-format/edn

comment by sooheon · 2019-11-16 · in The Configuration Complexity Curse

…the original library. 1: https://holmsand.github.io/reagent/ 2: https://github.com/Day8/re-frame 3: https://github.com/edn-format/edn 4: https://github.com/weavejester/hiccup

comment by fnordsensei · 2019-10-30 · in When XML Beats JSON: UI Layouts

…[k v k v] beats [k: v, k: v] hands down, and you can use whitespace commas if you want them. https://github.com/edn-format/edn

comment by filoeleven · 2019-08-17 · in Parsing JSON Is a Minefield (2018)

All of that and more is available with s-expressions in Clojure https://github.com/edn-format/edn

comment by yogthos · 2019-08-09 · in Advice to my younger self: become allergic to the churn

Tangentially, this is one of the reasons that I am a fan of EDN[1] over JSON. [1]: https://github.com/edn-format/edn

comment by kickopotomus · 2019-08-08 · in Advice to my younger self: become allergic to the churn

edn's pretty alright. https://github.com/edn-format/edn Here's a Java parser: https://github.com/bpsm/edn-java

comment by bb010g · 2019-07-20 · in The JSON Meta Application Protocol (JMAP)

FYI, there are edn implementations in many other languages: https://github.com/edn-format/edn/wiki/Implementations

comment by puredanger · 2019-07-05 · in Clojure and Deps.edn: A basic guide

…is to JS. Shame it hasn't similarly transcended its home language because it has a killer feature: https://github.com/edn-format/edn#tagged-elements

comment by frou_dh · 2019-07-05 · in Clojure and Deps.edn: A basic guide

…to VDOM nodes. No further logic or conversion required. [1]: https://github.com/Day8/re-frame [2]: https://github.com/edn-format/edn [3]: https://github.com/weavejester/hiccup/wiki/Syntax

comment by fnordsensei · 2019-05-19 · in Virtual DOM is pure overhead (2018)

i will never stop shilling for EDN: https://github.com/edn-format/edn it has no comma issues (commas are whitespace), it has comments, it's very structured, it got better set of primitive types and literals for them, it has native support…

comment by keymone · 2019-04-13 · in JSON as configuration files: please don’t (2016)

Since I started using Clojure, all my configs have become EDN ( https://github.com/edn-format/edn ), which is what JSON is to JavaScript. And it is awesome. So I can't see why JSON would be a bad choice either. There are some things in EDN…

comment by didibus · 2019-04-13 · in JSON as configuration files: please don’t (2016)

…json is good enough and ubiquitous. Oh, edn is not programmable either, and that's by design. [0] https://github.com/edn-format/edn

comment by vnorilo · 2019-04-13 · in JSON as configuration files: please don’t (2016)

…found it to be very useful, and not just in Clojure. For example there is an edn crate in Rust. * https://github.com/edn-format/edn * https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/edn/ * https://www.compoundtheory.com/clojure-edn-walkthrough/

comment by Communitivity · 2019-03-21 · in In Defense of YAML

As a clojure user, I care about EDN, but its probably too niche to spend your time on. https://github.com/edn-format/edn

comment by dkersten · 2019-02-21 · in Simdjson – Parsing Gigabytes of JSON per Second

…like the ability to comment out a specific node, in addition to the usual line-oriented comments. https://github.com/edn-format/edn

comment by int_19h · 2019-02-08 · in Why are we templating YAML?

In the Clojure world we use EDN (extensible data notation) which is a subset of Clojure. https://github.com/edn-format/edn You can extend it, convert it to JSON if necessary, and it is easy to read.

comment by sankyo · 2019-02-08 · in Why are we templating YAML?

…more specific. I don't have a lot of experinace with others lisps so please correct me. - The EDN ( https://github.com/edn-format/edn ) data format is a further development of the code is data idea. 'Tagged Literals' are interesting…

comment by nickik · 2019-01-07 · in How innovative is Clojure as a Lisp dialect from Lisp expert's perspective?

…, the one thing that makes REST REST but nobody implements in their "RESTful APIs". 2: https://github.com/edn-format/edn

comment by emmanueloga_ · 2018-11-30 · in Clojure REBL [video]

…explains the reasons, nearing the end 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

There is reasonably good library support: https://github.com/edn-format/edn/wiki/Implementations

comment by peatmoss · 2018-06-20 · in YAML: probably not so great after all (2017)

…:b 2}, lists (1,2,3) vectors [1, 2, 3] The serialization format EDN is basically JSON on steroids. https://github.com/edn-format/edn

comment by snarfybarfy · 2018-06-19 · in Ask HN: Your favorite syntactic sugar from any language?

https://github.com/edn-format/edn edn is an extensible data notation. A superset of edn is used by Clojure to represent programs, and it is used by Datomic and other applications as a data transfer format. This spec describes edn in…

comment by profalseidol · 2018-06-13 · in JSON-Based Universal Messaging Format (2017)

…there are also comments, namespaces, and tags. The grammar is also short, simple and easy. Spec: https://github.com/edn-format/edn/blob/master/README.md Grammar: https://github.com/antlr/grammars-v4/blob/master/clojure/Clo... (EDN is a…

comment by harlanji · 2018-05-08 · in Publishing JSON-LD for Developers

…get it, "but it has native support in all browsers" is a valid argument, i just wish it wasn't. [1] https://github.com/edn-format/edn

comment by keymone · 2018-04-22 · in Parsing JSON is a Minefield

…readable representation of data structure. I will trade JSON for edn [1] any days of the week [1] https://github.com/edn-format/edn

comment by unrealhoang · 2018-03-30 · in Reddit 1.0 source code

Please just use EDN: https://github.com/edn-format/edn

comment by Jeaye · 2018-02-05 · in Mark – A simple and unified notation for both object and markup data

…with curly braces. Which in my opinion, look worse than round parentheses … but that's opinion https://github.com/edn-format/edn https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/edn/

comment by anon1253 · 2018-02-05 · in Mark – A simple and unified notation for both object and markup data

Educate yourselves. https://github.com/edn-format/edn/blob/master/README.md#tagg...

comment by escherize · 2017-11-02 · in Dueling Rhetoric of Clojure and Haskell

I guess that's the problem edn [0] was trying to solve, but it doesn't have wide enough adoption. [0] https://github.com/edn-format/edn

comment by ajanuary · 2017-09-10 · in XML? Be cautious

…helpful is C-style argument lists (with type and value pairs), which JSON doesn't even use. [1] https://github.com/edn-format/edn

comment by setzer22 · 2017-09-09 · in A modest proposal

Maybe something like EDN? https://github.com/edn-format/edn

comment by wtetzner · 2017-07-03 · in Cicada – Unix shell written in Rust

…which is to Clojure what JSON is to JS: a format close to the language's way of representing data. https://github.com/edn-format/edn Example: https://github.com/milikicn/activity-stream-example/blob/4db... Not S-expression-based, though.

comment by JoelSanchez · 2017-05-17 · in JSON Feed

You might want to check out https://github.com/edn-format/edn

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

…most popular format for its widespread support, and its few data types map to most languages. [1]: https://github.com/edn-format/edn

comment by daliwali · 2017-02-24 · in API Design Guide

You're both wrong. EDN is the best. https://github.com/edn-format/edn

comment by groovy2shoes · 2016-12-27 · in Problems with CSVs

…vs parenthesis, but about unnecessary commas and quotes in JSON. I would rather use EDN than JSON ( https://github.com/edn-format/edn ) - no unnecessary noise. I regard EDN as a kind of S-expressions.

comment by avodonosov · 2016-12-03 · in Amazon States Language – A JSON-based language to describe state machines

…adding some fixed types doesn't really help that much. Something like EDN for JSON would be cool: https://github.com/edn-format/edn

comment by cdmckay · 2016-11-02 · in Introducing TJSON, a stricter, typed form of JSON

in Clojure we use EDN (Extensible Data Notation) for config files and a data transfer format. https://github.com/edn-format/edn It is really a pleasure to use compared to JSON and XML. While it may not be as compact as ProtoBuffers,…

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

…(pronounced "eden") from the Clojure people? https://clojure.github.io/clojure/clojure.edn-api.html https://github.com/edn-format/edn I always thought that seemed like a nice alternative data format to JSON. Anyone using this it in the…

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

…are treated as whitespace!), has a date type, and much more is Rich Hickey's (of Clojure fame) EDN. https://github.com/edn-format/edn {:a 1, "foo" :bar, [1 2 3] four}

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

…pretty good. It's terrible at human writability. Conversely S-exps are lovely to work with. [0] https://github.com/edn-format/edn

comment by auganov · 2016-07-31 · in How to Avoid Being Called a Bozo When Producing XML (2005)

…yet offered a plausible new markup alternative to the last one’s mouldy leftovers. See: https://github.com/edn-format/edn

comment by snikeris · 2016-05-19 · in Specifying JSON

Would like to see a comparison to EDN. https://github.com/edn-format/edn

comment by kevinSuttle · 2016-04-22 · in Amazon open-sources Ion – a binary and text interchangable, typed JSON-superset

Something like edn[1] perhaps? Worked really well in my projects. [1]: https://github.com/edn-format/edn

comment by thenonameguy · 2016-04-15 · in Hjson, the Human JSON

Rather than remove comments, address the primary use case: https://github.com/edn-format/edn#tagged-elements

comment by brandonbloom · 2016-04-14 · in Ignition: A new CoreOS machine provisioning utility

Is there a spec? Is this a Java API for it? See also: https://github.com/edn-format/edn

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

…representations for the base datatypes. I believe Clojure's EDN format offers all of the above https://github.com/edn-format/edn

comment by kyllo · 2015-12-01 · in XML fever (2008)

Once you use Clojure's EDN, you start to cringe when you see JSON. Spec - https://github.com/edn-format/edn Walkthrough - http://www.compoundtheory.com/clojure-edn-walkthrough/

comment by coding4all · 2015-03-09 · in Pixie: A sweet Clojure-ish language