alt Hacker NewsIt's too bad EDN [1] hasn't seen much adoption outside of the biblical paradise that is the Clojure ecosystem.
[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clojure#Extensible_Data_Nota...
In fact, there doesn't seem to be a spec or standard for it, outside of the de facto standard used by Clojure and the programs in its orbit. I guess nobody's bothered to write a standard, because the people who are already using EDN are doing fine without one, and the people who aren't either don't know what it is or don't see its value.
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Dont be pessimistic - you are still free to used it.
I used EDN outside of Clojure. The system needed a relatively large amount of config files, and I chose EDN as a better JSON. Looks familiar to everyone, but supports comments - the primary motivation for that choice.
JSON-5 allows a single trailing comma. EDN simply ignores commas. You can have them, trailing or not. But they are really redundant and incur visual noise.
Perhaps EDN can also be improved, but that's a good format. Convenient.
https://github.com/edn-format/edn
I too love edn, but unfortunately most other languages lib abandoned (eg. https://github.com/edn-format/edn-dot-net ). Looking around python seems relatively maintained which is great https://github.com/swaroopch/edn_format/issues