[dustingetz]

EDN (Extensible Data Notation) is extensible in userland, which is the whole point of it. This is JSON plus some extra types.

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r/clojure on JSON vs EDN: https://www.reddit.com/r/Clojure/comments/6gytlf/json_vs_edn...

Transcript of Rich Hickey EDN talk which OP obviously hasn't seen: https://github.com/matthiasn/talk-transcripts/blob/master/Hi...

Transcript of Rich Hickey talk OP linked, C-f "edn": https://github.com/matthiasn/talk-transcripts/blob/master/Hi... Perhaps OP had his fingers in his ears while he watched it. This blog post should be retracted with an apology.

[tome]

Would you care to expand on that? It's not clear what you mean, neither from your comment nor the linked Reddit post.

> Transcript of Rich Hickey talk OP linked, C-f "edn":

What do you mean? There are these three occurences of "edn", none of which is enlightening.

* That's great, I'll start shipping some edn across a socket and we're done.

* How many people ever sent edn over wire? Yeah

* So the edn data model is not like a small part of Clojure, it's sort of the heart of Clojure, right? It's the answer to many of these problems. It's tangible, it works over wires

It sounds like he mostly cares about edn because of wires.

[dustingetz]

You have the primary source right in front of you!!!!!!!! What do you need me to explain it worse for? Print out the damn paper, sit down with a highlighter and read. FFS.

[AnimalMuppet]

He looked at the primary source, and doesn't see it saying what you claim it says. So he's asking you for where, from the primary source, you found the source for making your claim. Given that he already looked at the source you cited, that doesn't seem like an extraordinary request...

[tome]

You're not arguing particularly convincingly ...

If you want to explain what an edn really is the I'm happy to listen.