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robtotoday at 2:41 PM1 replyview on HN

Seems like it draws a lot of inspiration from EDN. Tagged literals, commas-as-whitespace (and optional), and anything-can-be-a-key are features I sorely miss when I have to go back to JSON.

Don't know how I feel about optional quotes around strings, that seems like a mistake. And having an immutable set literal would be nice as well.


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waweictoday at 3:01 PM

Because I may not be the only one who was confused initially: I think EDN in this instance refers to the data serialization format (Extensible Data Notation) from the Clojure people, not to CBOR-EDN (Extended Diagnostic Notation), which also offers tagged literals and anything-can-be-a-key, IIRC.

Really unfortunate naming