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Re:Kaitai Struct: A new way to develop parsers for binary st... by CGamesPlay on Thursday March 17, 2022 @05:14PM (#30715959)
As a code generator, I guess this may be nice. It seems like a DSL like the Nom [0] API is more natural and expressive, though. I imagine you can hit limits to expressiveness in Yaml pretty quickly.

[0] https://github.com/Geal/nom

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Re:Kaitai Struct: A new way to develop parsers for binary st... by mdaniel on Thursday March 17, 2022 @10:58PM (#30718322)
And be sure to visit the "example parsers" hidden in an issue comment thread: https://github.com/Geal/nom/issues/14

I was sad at "[ ] PDF" because I consider that the torture test of any binary parsing framework

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