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In what regard EDN is "better" than JSON? the point of the post was the RFC specification is not tight and there are corner cases. I don't see any rigor in the

• keymone 9y ago
  it is better in regard that: - there exists single reference implementation, which rules out points like scalars not being valid JSON in some parsers despite being part of the spec - it is extensible in a manner that never invalidates the syntax for parsers that do not use corresponding extensions (this is huge actually) - comments are part of the spec, so it essentially replaces both json and yaml - richer set of primitive types - commas are whitespace (best feature ever) the rest should definitely be handled in BNF spec, but the above makes EDN immediately much better than JSON