Hello,
I just discovered this developers tool, and I can't understand why it
was invented. Why didn't Google use ASN.1, which is standard and it is
used for this, to make a language, platform independent description of
data to be enconded later as XML, or different binary formats, that
can be
My understanding of ASN.1 is that it has no affordance for forwards- and
backwards-compatibility, which is critical in distributed systems where the
components are constantly changing.
On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 7:34 PM, Kalki70 kalki...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello,
I just discovered this developers
OK, I looked into this again (something I do once every few years when
someone points it out).
ASN.1 *by default* has no extensibility, but you can use tags, as I see you
have done in your example. This should not be an option. Everything should
be extensible by default, because people are very
On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 9:59 PM, Kenton Varda ken...@google.com wrote:
The bigger problem with ASN.1, though, is that it is way over-complicated.
THIS
It has way too many primitive types. It has options that are not needed.
The encoding, even though it is binary, is much larger than
