[rockybernstein]

Instead of taking a quick look at the description of how it works, why not instead spend a little more time to understand more, before passing judgement? I have written http://rocky.github.io/Deparsing-Paper.pdf to help people who want understand how this fits into the conventional decompiler landscape, and how things are a little different here.

Spoiler alert: no is it no more a glorified pattern-matching approach any more than a dragon-book-style compiler is.