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by selfmodruntime 813 days ago
What happens if you put in a binary which outputs C-like machine code, like Rust (llvm) or zig?
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Languages with a rich standard library and generating a lot of code for you usually need some love to get rid/represent idiomatically common patterns and to detect common data structures.

We haven't looked into it yet, but the automatic data structure recognition might help.

Frankly, Rust looks particularly scary: https://media.ccc.de/v/37c3-11684-rust_binary_analysis_featu...

Oh, very nice! I've dealt with forsaken deeply abstract vtable mazes of hell, but the idea of using a ton of sum types, dynamic dispatch, async everywhere, and long iterator chains would make for some deliciously unreadable binaries!