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by jdminhbg 1360 days ago
EDN also contains support for date and UUID literals, the former of which is a huge pain when using JSON and needing to communicate which standard you're using and remember to encode/decode on each side of the wire.
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Plus you can even write your own reader literals to enhance your data format. Aero does this well/horribly depending on your taste but it's a cool mechanism for declarative formats.