• CosmicGiraffe@lemmy.world
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    12 days ago

    I don’t think it’s accurate to say that everyone can just decompile the code and reuse it. Decompiling and reverse engineering a binary is incredibly hard. Even if you do that there are some aspects of the original code which get optimised out in the compiler and can’t be reproduced from just the binary.

    • Aux@feddit.uk
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      11 days ago

      As someone who has extensive experience with decompiling, I can say that working with binaries is usually a lot easier than with a source code.