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Extensible Data Notation
121 mentions on Hacker News by 87 people: 8 stories, 113 comments · first 2012-11-09 · latest 2026-09-02
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…gone, it has symbols (aka light-weight strings), it has built-in support for time and uuid objects. https://github.com/edn-format/edn
comment by donpdonp · 2014-10-09 · in Hjson, the Human JSON -
Or edn? https://github.com/edn-format/edn
comment by bokchoi · 2014-06-24 · in Cargo, Rust's Package Manager -
Have you checked out EDN yet ( https://github.com/edn-format/edn )? It's a relatively new data format designed by Rich Hickey that has versioning and backward-compatibility baked in from the start. EDN stands for "Extensible Data…
comment by espeed · 2014-03-08 · in Linus Torvalds: “I'm happily hacking on a new save format using ‘libgit2’” -
I'm a fan of edn myself. https://github.com/edn-format/edn
comment by groovy2shoes · 2014-03-07 · in Linus Torvalds: “I'm happily hacking on a new save format using ‘libgit2’” -
…are going to struggle. While I do not agree with his position, it is shared by many people. [1] https://github.com/edn-format/edn [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5548404
comment by jared314 · 2014-03-03 · in Q – A Data Language -
Almost all of the issues solved by JSON5, are also solved by EDN: https://github.com/edn-format/edn I'd like to see a little bit more love for edn... and if you're gonna pick something incompatible with plain old JSON, why not edn?
comment by berdario · 2014-03-02 · in JSON5 is a proposed extension to JSON -
The Clojure folks are doing this with EDN: https://github.com/edn-format/edn
comment by evanspa · 2014-02-27 · in The Emacs Problem (2005) -
…linked, it tries to make that point fairly nicely. [0] https://github.com/swannodette/om [1] https://github.com/edn-format/edn [2] https://github.com/ckirkendall/kioo [3] https://github.com/r0man/sablono
comment by masklinn · 2014-01-23 · in React: Finally, a great server/client web stack -
…top HN complaints: No date format, no comments, needlessly strict commas. Is it too late for edn? https://github.com/edn-format/edn Symbols that aren't "strings" are kinda neat too, and you get downright attached to arbitrary key-value…
comment by samatman · 2013-10-11 · in ECMA-404: The JSON Data Interchange Format [pdf] -
Now, if it only had EDN[0] support too. [0] https://github.com/edn-format/edn
comment by jared314 · 2013-04-14 · in Postgres 9.3 feature highlight: JSON operators -
Clojure's way has been generalized into a nice standard called edn (extensible data notation): https://github.com/edn-format/edn I wish this was as commonplace as json and xml...
comment by Jach · 2013-02-04 · in S-expressions -
…have to write JSON? If you, too, think this would be awesome, check out extensible data notation: https://github.com/edn-format/edn .
comment by ecmendenhall · 2013-02-04 · in S-expressions -
…I'm going to contribute something productive, and give a plug for a sensible JSON replacement, edn: https://github.com/edn-format/edn
comment by Jach · 2012-11-09 · in Evil, or why Douglas Crockford is harmful to Free Software