CBOR MsgPack ProtoBuf Cap'n'Proto BSON BinC Bencode ...
Is there anyone who can provide an overview of what these are all good for, how they differ, and what's wrong with ASN.1, which from my limited knowledge should be able to represent the same things and is decades older than all of them?
(e.g., is ASN.1 maybe not self-describing while all of these are?)
Is there anyone who can provide an overview of what these are all good for, how they differ, and what's wrong with ASN.1, which from my limited knowledge should be able to represent the same things and is decades older than all of them?
(e.g., is ASN.1 maybe not self-describing while all of these are?)