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Tom, have you heard of EDN and Transit? Like JSON, but:

1. Extensible, custom types

2. Streamy, efficient, compressed and fast, leverages platform's existing native/optimized JSON parsers

3. Wide platform reach

4. Made by Rich Hickey

http://blog.cognitect.com/blog/2014/7/22/transit



I have not, and while it looks cool, it seems to be optimized for data transfer between applications, not a human readable config format.


Transit is more about data transfer, but EDN is mostly meant to be a better JSON (useful date types, doesn't care about commas, has comments, etc)


There is also a similar project - Hjson, a user interface for JSON- https://hjson.org/


For me, hjson takes on some of the warts of yaml (bare strings) which is why I prefer json5 if I'm going for a json variant.




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