in Clojure we use EDN (Extensible Data Notation) for config files and a data transfer format. https://github.com/edn-format/edn https://github.com/edn-format/e

in Clojure we use EDN (Extensible Data Notation) for config files and a data transfer format. https://github.com/edn-format/edn https://github.com/edn-format/edn It is really a pleasure to use compared to JSON and XML. While it may not be as compact as ProtoBuffers, Thrift, or Avro, it is human readable and also valid Clojure code. Libraries are ready available to convert it to JSON.