ghidra vs Recaf

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ghidra		Recaf
	Project
126	Mentions	1
47,446	Stars	2
2.2%	Growth	-
10.0	Activity	1.8
3 days ago	Latest Commit	about 2 years ago
Java	Language	Java
Apache License 2.0	License	MIT License

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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

ghidra

Posts with mentions or reviews of ghidra. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-04.

TryHackMe- Compiled
1 project | dev.to | 29 Mar 2024

Let's see what our beloved software reverse engineering framework Ghidra has to show.
OpenAI is working with the US military now
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Jan 2024

Define war machinery. Contributing to Ghidra?
https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra
Ghidra 11.0 Released
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Dec 2023
Dogbolt Decompiler Explorer
7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Dec 2023

Binary Ninja likewise is empty and keeps up just fine as well. It's not a coincidence that the two commercial products that are funding it are both confident enough to put their stuff online like this.
And it's no conspiracy theory or intentional sandbagging, you can see the implementation: https://github.com/decompiler-explorer/decompiler-explorer
and if anyone can improve the other tools performance we'd be happy to accept it. We reached out to the Ghidra devs: https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/issues/5228 but they didn't have any silver bullets for us either.
Show HN: Ghidra Plays Mario
10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Sep 2023

Nice, I'll give it a closer look. My only concern so far is memory hooking (still needed for hardware registers), which on Java side was called by FilteredMemoryState [1]. In memstate.cc it looks like just the simpler MemoryState is implemented [2], and there's no equivalent to MemoryAccessFilter. But it might not be that complicated to add...
[1]: https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/blob/4561e8...
[2]: https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/blob/4561e8...
NSA releases Ghidra version 10.3.3
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Aug 2023
Ghidra 10.3.2 released!
1 project | /r/ReverseEngineering | 12 Jul 2023
Ghirda 10.3.2 released!
1 project | /r/ghidra | 12 Jul 2023
Debugger Ghidra Class
1 project | /r/patient_hackernews | 19 Jun 2023

1 project | /r/hackernews | 19 Jun 2023

Recaf

Posts with mentions or reviews of Recaf. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-11-11.

Looking for a library to parse object files
6 projects | /r/java | 11 Nov 2021

JavaFX UI

What are some alternatives?

When comparing ghidra and Recaf you can also consider the following projects:

x64dbg - An open-source user mode debugger for Windows. Optimized for reverse engineering and malware analysis.

jelf - ELF parsing library in java.

cutter - Free and Open Source Reverse Engineering Platform powered by rizin

JavaPeParser - Reads PE headers and virtual memory from file or buffer in Java

rizin - UNIX-like reverse engineering framework and command-line toolset.

pecoff4j - PE/COFF 4J is a java engineering library for portable executables, the format used by Windows

r2ghidra - Native Ghidra Decompiler for r2

ret-sync - ret-sync is a set of plugins that helps to synchronize a debugging session (WinDbg/GDB/LLDB/OllyDbg2/x64dbg) with IDA/Ghidra/Binary Ninja disassemblers.

ghidra-dark - Dark theme installer for Ghidra

Ghidra-Cpp-Class-Analyzer - Ghidra C++ Class and Run Time Type Information Analyzer

efiSeek - Ghidra analyzer for UEFI firmware.

rz-ghidra - Deep ghidra decompiler and sleigh disassembler integration for rizin