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What about S-Expressions? My electronics CAD program recently switched to using it for footprint and layout files and I am very happy about it. It looks like this in text: https://github.com/KiCad/Footprint_Symbols.pretty/blob/maste...

Are S-Expressions a standardized data format? It looks very similar to Json, but harder to read.

I find it easier to read. It's easier to parse too so it doesn't rely on standardization as much. There was some effort towards standardization but nothing became of it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-expression#Standardization

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