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ASN.1 is good though. What sucked was everyone implementing their own serde tooling. In another, better world we'd have consolidated around ASN.1 DER and not wa
by yrro 3y ago
ASN.1 is good though. What sucked was everyone implementing their own serde tooling. In another, better world we'd have consolidated around ASN.1 DER and not wasted all that time and energy with XML, JSON and so on.
- revelio 3y agoIf it was really that good there'd be plenty of great open source implementations and tools by now, but in reality nobody wants to use it. Note that protobuf didn't have this issue.
- stephc_int13 3y agoHave you heard about the ASN.1 implementation by Fabrice Bellard? https://bellard.org/ffasn1/ https://bellard.org/ffasn1/