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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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  1. …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
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. …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)
  7. 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
  8. …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
  9. Or edn? https://github.com/edn-format/edn
    comment by bokchoi · 2014-06-24 · in Cargo, Rust's Package Manager
  10. 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’”
  11. 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’”
  12. …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
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    Edn format – extensible data notation
    story by jnazario · 2014-03-02 · 0 comments
  14. 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
  15. 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)
  16. …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
  17. …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]
  18. 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
  19. 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
  20. …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
  21. …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