It's also much easier to construct a safe parser if you can use metaprogramming and effectively build a parser from generic blocks. Consider also how ASN.1 hea

It's also much easier to construct a safe parser if you can use metaprogramming and effectively build a parser from generic blocks. Consider also how ASN.1 heavily uses specifications that are supposed to be read by compiler generators, something that also is replicated in Protobuf, but with less expressive power.