dakrone/cheshire
Clojure JSON and JSON SMILE (binary json format) encoding/decoding observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
75/100
- Activity 94
- Release rhythm 35
- Longevity 100
Flags: no_releases
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-02. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 5642
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 39
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
1557 stars · 155 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
Cheshire is a fast Clojure JSON encoding/decoding library built on Jackson, supporting extended types like Date, UUID, Set, and Symbol, plus the binary SMILE format. It combines the speed of clj-json with the custom-encoder flexibility of clojure-json.
Use cases
- encode clojure maps to json
- parse json strings in clojure
- generate smile binary json
- custom json encoders for dates and uuids
- pretty-print json output
- stream json to a file or writer
When to choose
- you need fast, feature-rich JSON handling in Clojure
- you need SMILE binary format support
- you need custom encoders for Java types like Date or UUID
- you're using Babashka, which bundles it
When to avoid
- you need formats other than JSON/SMILE like EDN or Transit
- you're not on the JVM or Clojure ecosystem
- you need streaming JSON parsing of very large documents with low memory
Facets
library · maturity stable
serialization parser developer-tools backend jvm jvm-scripting json smile clojure jackson encoding decoding data-engineering
2 sources
- readme: https://github.com/dakrone/cheshire · fetched 2026-08-28 · 613af3b6321b
- homepage: https://github.com/dakrone/cheshire · fetched 2026-08-29 · 7580f004e4dc
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| dakrone/cheshire | main | 75 |
For agents
markdown · JSON · MCP: product_card(name="dakrone/cheshire")
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