An opinionated guide on how to reverse engineer software

Re:An opinionated guide on how to reverse engineer software by _hl_ on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @02:27PM (#29098526)

Tangential, but from the cutter website:

> No Java involved.

What an odd thing to advertise as a feature.

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Re:An opinionated guide on how to reverse engineer software by account42 on Thursday November 04, 2021 @07:37AM (#29105787)

I consider that a feature, Java is always a pain since the applications always expect a system-wide JVM install but then are picky about which JVM they run on.

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Re:An opinionated guide on how to reverse engineer software by chayleaf on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @09:32PM (#29102716)

For context - it's talking about the Ghidra decompiler there. It's written in C++, Ghidra itself is written in Java.

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Re:An opinionated guide on how to reverse engineer software by zrth on Thursday November 04, 2021 @05:08AM (#29104866)

In this context, a GUI application, it has some meaning. Java GUIs are know to be not enjoyable.

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