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by jraph 779 days ago
If you are so inclined, a decompiler might be able to "recreate" a big part of the source code. IntelliJ IDEA's one (Fernflower) works well, its fork Vineflower seems like an interesting option too. Both are released under Apache 2.

Fernflower works so well I don't always immediately notice I'm debugging decompiled code.
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rafaelgoncalves 779 days ago
Nice, didn't know about fernflower, thanks for the recommendation! I use JavaDecompile (JD-GUI)ยน too much and is already in my workflow, but from insights like this i see some nicer/better tools.

1 - JD-GUI - https://java-decompiler.github.io/

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jraph 779 days ago
Seems convenient, I'll keep this in mind for whenever I may need this.
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