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(This is LLM-powered and based on Ghidra, fwiw)

It’s more like LLM-optional.

Malimite is first and foremost intended to be a tool to help Reverse Engineer iOS/Mac binaries, much like JADX for Android.

As it turns out, LLMs are quite good at “converting” C-Pseudocode into an approximation of the original Swift or Objective-C code. Therefore, you can optionally use the LLM extension to help analysis.

Of course, it’s not 100% accurate, but significantly easier to read, and I find it to save hours of manual research.

The prompts used are in this file: https://github.com/LaurieWired/Malimite/blob/main/src/main/j...

Kind of amused she uses raw format strings to generate JSON

Who would have guessed just a few years ago that the final programming language would be English.

The last trump has not sounded just yet. The day of judgement is still not quite at hand. It is - for now - still all to play for.

(in (the 'end) (will (speak we) lisp))

    ; in: THE 'END
    ;     (THE 'END)
    ;
    ; caught ERROR:
    ;   Error while parsing arguments to special operator THE:
    ;     too few elements in
    ;       ('END)
    ;     to satisfy lambda list
    ;       (VALUE-TYPE FORM):
    ;     exactly 2 expected, but got 1

In the 1980s/early 1990s when HyperCard was king, that would have made sense. And in the late 1990s/early 2000s when Applescript was a thing people cared about, too. But yes, for the last twenty years or so, English-like programming languages weren't the thing.

Yea, and I want my decompiler to be deterministic, so LLM stuff is a no-no.

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