Tooling is always an issue in the beginning, when you pick a new technology like XML or ASN.1. Tooling is not an issue now, but now is too late. Turns out tha

Tooling is always an issue in the beginning, when you pick a new technology like XML or ASN.1. Tooling is not an issue now, but now is too late. Turns out that writing specs -and implementing them- around simple textual protocols is easier than building new binary and textual structured encodings.