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Re:Kaitai Struct: A new way to develop parsers for binary st... by saagarjha on Thursday March 17, 2022 @08:04PM (#30717232)
They’re designed to solve different problems, really. Kaitai is often used when trying to represent a binary format from a reverse engineer’s perspective, to allow for sharing this work and using it from whatever other tooling you have. Wuffs is more “production grade” and is intended to provide performant, safe parsing of known formats where one would typically use a language like C or C++.
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Re:Kaitai Struct: A new way to develop parsers for binary st... by nigeltao on Friday March 18, 2022 @04:06AM (#30719673)
I agree that it's similar but ultimately different problems. Copy/pasting from https://github.com/google/wuffs/blob/main/doc/related-work.m... gives:

> Kaitai Struct is in a similar space, generating safe parsers for multiple target programming languages from one declarative specification. Again, Wuffs differs in that it is a complete (and performant) end to end implementation, not just for the structured parts of a file format. Repeating a point in the previous paragraph, the difficulty in decoding the GIF format isn't in the regularly-expressible part of the format, it's in the LZW compression. Kaitai's GIF parser returns the compressed LZW data as an opaque blob.

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