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Re:Show HN: I wrote a Java decompiler in pure C language by kazinator on Tuesday June 03, 2025 @10:32PM (#44176707)
By the following very short garden path:

1. How silly to write such a thing in C from scratch. Such a project will invariably invent half of Lisp in order to have the right kind of infrastructure for doing this and that.

2. Let's look for some of it up and down the tree. Oh look, there is a bitset and hashmap, see? I don't see test cases for these anywhere; is it original work from this project or battle-tested code taken from elsewhere?

3. Open hashmap.c ...

GPL violation found in half a minute.

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Re:Show HN: I wrote a Java decompiler in pure C language by issafram on Tuesday June 03, 2025 @11:06PM (#44176860)
Yea I'm not criticizing you. Was just genuinely curious. Thanks
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Re:Show HN: I wrote a Java decompiler in pure C language by mrbenjihao on Wednesday June 04, 2025 @10:19AM (#44181003)
Why is it silly?
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Re:Show HN: I wrote a Java decompiler in pure C language by tangus on Wednesday June 04, 2025 @02:50PM (#44184129)
They say it right in the next sentence.
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