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Tbh it’s kind of funny folks keep reinventing the wheel when we have had portable, standardized serialization format for around 50 years: DER.
by pmalynin 5y ago
Tbh it’s kind of funny folks keep reinventing the wheel when we have had portable, standardized serialization format for around 50 years: DER.
- nly 5y agoTooling for ASN.1 formats f*** suck, that's why. The only truly fully featured, well-maintained open source implementation for C/C++ seems to be asn1c from Lev Walkin and the dev experience is a world away from what you get using something like Avro, CapnProto or Protobufs.
- baybal2 5y agoASN1 is 50 years old? Really?