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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

A decompiler doesnt give you access to the comments, variable names, which is an important part of every source code

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Meanwhile, AI is having a heyday with it...

https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.09029

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What's cool is that you can interpret the var names yourself and rename them whatever you want.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

But it is extremely time-consuming. Open source code makes it transparent and easy to read, that's what it is about: transparency