CSON - Data notation

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CSON, aka CoffeeScript Object Notation, is an open source data notation created in 2011 by Benjamin Lupton.

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13Years Old

16Repos

Download source code:

git clone https://github.com/bevry/cson

Source Code

CoffeeScript-Object-Notation. Same as JSON but for CoffeeScript objects.

Tags: dataNotation
CSON is developed on GitHub and has 1,334 stars
There are at least 16 CSON repos on GitHub
Early development of CSON happened in https://bevry.me/
CSON is written in JSON, CSON, CoffeeScript, Markdown, YAML, JavaScript
The Google BigQuery Public Dataset GitHub snapshot shows 1 users using CSON in 2 repos on GitHub
GitHub supports syntax highlighting for CSON
10 PLDB concepts link to CSON: Ait, Catala, CSON, Factor, Flow9, fork-lang, invokator, ko, Koka, mirth

Example from hello-world:

{'Hello': 'World'}

Example from Linguist:

'menu': [
  {
    'label': 'Packages'
    'submenu': [
      'label': 'Wercker Status'
      'submenu': [
        { 'label': 'Check now!', 'command': 'wercker-status:checknow' }
      ]
    ]
  }
]