Lev Walkin <[email protected]> writes: >Why Google invents their Protocol Buffers? Thrift, anyone?
To make a fashion statement (Protocol Buffers doesn't compete with ASN.1, it competes with JSON, for which the question is then "Why Protocol Buffers when you have JSON", and the answer remains the same). If you want to compare things with ASN.1/DER then you need to look at formats like EBML, which is BER reinvented really badly (when I first saw the EBML spec I thought it was the product of one alien race trying to explain BER to another, only their universal translators were broken and they had to gesture a lot). Peter. _______________________________________________ Asn1 mailing list [email protected] http://lists.asn1.org/mailman/listinfo/asn1
