For me it's not curly braces vs parenthesis, but about unnecessary commas and quotes in JSON. I would rather use EDN than JSON (https://github.com/edn-format/ed

For me it's not curly braces vs parenthesis, but about unnecessary commas and quotes in JSON. I would rather use EDN than JSON (https://github.com/edn-format/edn https://github.com/edn-format/edn) - no unnecessary noise. I regard EDN as a kind of S-expressions.