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Re:Show HN: ION, a JSON alternative – Versatile, compact, fa... by kevinSuttle on Wednesday February 03, 2016 @12:19PM (#11027763)
Is there a spec? Is this a Java API for it?

See also: https://github.com/edn-format/edn

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Re:Show HN: ION, a JSON alternative – Versatile, compact, fa... by VStack on Wednesday February 03, 2016 @12:34PM (#11027898)
Yes please check:

Specification: http://tutorials.jenkov.com/iap/index.html

Benchmarks: http://tutorials.jenkov.com/iap/ion-performance-benchmarks.h...

Tutorials: http://tutorials.jenkov.com/iap-tools-java/index.html

Here is also a recent Infoq.com article http://www.infoq.com/articles/IAP-Fast-HTTP-Alternative?utm_....

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Re:Show HN: ION, a JSON alternative – Versatile, compact, fa... by profeta on Wednesday February 03, 2016 @01:29PM (#11028449)
the "message structure" page is 404ing. all the rest hints to a designed-by-committee buzzword thingy.
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Re:Show HN: ION, a JSON alternative – Versatile, compact, fa... by jjenkov on Thursday February 04, 2016 @04:09AM (#11032790)
Here is the Message Structure doc http://tutorials.jenkov.com/iap/iap-message-structure.html . We are not as far with the core IAP protocol as we are with ION, but we will get there.

Designed-by-committee - really? You pull that?

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Re:Show HN: ION, a JSON alternative – Versatile, compact, fa... by fnordsensei on Wednesday February 03, 2016 @01:45PM (#11028600)
To be fair, Transit is probably a better message format than edn. https://github.com/cognitect/transit-java
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