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by sjbrown 3432 days ago
In the last 15 years, I haven't encountered many coders or organizations that produce code that think machine code or bytecode is significantly "secret".

The sentiment I mostly encounter is:

Secrets are things that are encrypted.

Compiling (to bytecode or machine code) is just a way to let different kinds of "machines" read the code.

(Paranoia seems to amplify that attitude)