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by marcosdumay 2511 days ago
S-expressions do not have typed standards for serializing dates and booleans like JSON. They also can't distinguish numbers from text.

S-expressions also have no standard for comments, and can't distinguish maps from lists.

A S-expression based serialization standard would be a bit cleaner than JSON, but it's enough of a change that it's worth redoing anything.

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All of that and more is available with s-expressions in Clojure https://github.com/edn-format/edn