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I maintain Heimdal[0]'s ASN.1 compiler[1], though I didn't create it. It's a pleasure. It, and the IETF, have taught me a few things:
- there's nothing really wrong with ASN.1 as a syntax except maybe it's ugly
- there's nothing wrong at all with ASN.1's semantics
- there's a TON wrong with the BER family of encoding rules (BER, DER, and CER), and with every tag-length-value scheme
- you can create ASN.1 encoding rules for anything you like, which really means "use ASN.1 as the schema language for whatever encoding I prefer"
- indeed, there's XER (XML encoding rules), JER (JSON encoding rules), GSER (generic string encoding rules) -- all text-based -- and a bunch of binary encodings with at least two that are not tag-length-value (and so resemble NDR and XDR), like PER and OER
- people love to hate ASN.1, mainly because BER/DER/CER deserve the hatred, and for less legitimate reasons too, so they go off and invent new wheels that often have the same problems -- oh well!
[0] https://github.com/heimdal/heimdal
What’s so great about ASN.1 and it’s encoding rules is that anyone writing type-length-value serialization for networking purposes, for example[1], is basically independently reinventing ASN.1 because it’s so fundamentally optimal.
It truly will make you wonder why Protobufs and others exist.
[1]: https://github.com/Planimeter/grid-sdk/blob/master/engine/sh...
