Interesting, but now you have to add in the possibility of having bugs in your YAML file. The YAML is probably less readable than the spec for the binary format

Interesting, but now you have to add in the possibility of having bugs in your YAML file. The YAML is probably less readable than the spec for the binary format itself. Looking at the code-gen for utf8_string [0] and it's a case of 'thanks, but no thanks' > std::unique_ptr<std::vector<std::unique_ptr<utf8_codepoint_t>>> m_codepoints; This is a solution looking for a problem, but I bet it was fun to write. [0] https://formats.kaitai.io/utf8_string/cpp_stl_11.html https://formats.kaitai.io/utf8_string/cpp_stl_11.html