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The concept is great, there are a handful of limitations that become more apparent with actual use. The main one is there is no encoding, just decoding. The gen
by pfedak 5y ago
The concept is great, there are a handful of limitations that become more apparent with actual use. The main one is there is no encoding, just decoding. The generated code and representation of the parsed data also sometimes feel idiomatic to the language used, particularly in cases where I found I had to add extra levels of indirection to satisfy kaitai.
- junon 5y agoYeah, and there are subtle "bug"-type behaviors that are actually correct but incredibly inconvenient. I've gone back and forth on using it (I'll reach for it if I'm just parsing something mostly trivial but not for much else these days).