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Hi, wanted to seize the opportunity and provide some feedback (before there's even any code :)

• Could you provide a link to the haskell and erlang packages you were referring to? I couldn't find anything that looks at all robust or anywhere near complete (https://hackage.haskell.org/package/iso8583-bitmaps-0.1.0.0, https://github.com/josepablocastro/efak ?) I'd be interested to see how they're doing things ...

• Personal opinion: it would probably make a lot of sense to make the c lib as rudimentary as possible (i.e. avoiding mem allocation, libc usage, etc if possible). My feeling is that a C implementation would bring the most value in the embedded space (think terminal hardware, smartcard) and that using it to bootstrap a lot of binding libraries may be more hassle than it's worth.

• I like your idea of having a 'portable' testing spec that could be reused both for the bindings as well as possibly other implementations.

• Also: where's a good place to discuss? I never really know at github, this post doesn't really feel like an issue to me but would belong on a mailing list or something... Any preferences?