toon: 🎒 Token-Oriented Object Notation – JSON for LLMs at half the token cost

Developers everywhere use JSON as the default way of handing data around including to LLMs. If you want proof of that take a look at the APIs for LLMs where you will find API methods to force the return message from the LLM to be JSON. This project was born out of a desire to be efficient with tokens and realized that you could format the data using a different style and get equally good results to JSON with approximately a 50% reduction in token consumption. Super interesting and for projects at scale could be a big deal.