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Re:Show HN: ION, a JSON alternative – Versatile, compact, fa... by room271 on Wednesday February 03, 2016 @01:06PM (#11028197)
Have you also looked at Transit?

https://github.com/cognitect/transit-format

Re:Show HN: ION, a JSON alternative – Versatile, compact, fa... by VStack on Wednesday February 03, 2016 @02:10PM (#11028810)
Yes, we have looked at Transit recently. Transit encodes using JSON or MessagePack. We believe ION to be a more versatile data format than MessagePack, so Transit could benefit from serializing to ION instead of MessagePack.