rellic VS cling

Rellic[0] is a decompiler that uses a similar, more modern approach to turn LLVM IR into goto-free C code

[0]: https://github.com/lifting-bits/rellic

Rellic [1] implements an algorithm that generates goto-free control flows (citation in README), which would be a significant improvement against what Ghidra/IDA generates currently.

Unfortunately it looks like the maintenance state of the pieces around Rellic isn't very good, and it's quite rocket science to get it building. It doesn't have as much UI/GUI as Ghidra either so it's a bit far from accessible right now.

[1]: https://github.com/lifting-bits/rellic

Worthlooking into "No more gotos" paper, you can find a copy here: https://github.com/lifting-bits/rellic/blob/master/docs/NoMoreGotos.pdf

More recent activity, but based on clang: https://github.com/jupyter-xeus/xeus-cling https://github.com/root-project/cling

> The repl driven workflow is amazing and the lisp images are rock solid and highly performant.

do people not realize that basically everything vm/interpreted language has a repl these days?

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/java-repl-j...

https://github.com/waf/CSharpRepl

https://pub.dev/packages/interactive

not to mention ruby, python, php, lua

hell even c++ has a janky repl https://github.com/root-project/cling

Interactive C++ with Cling, https://blog.llvm.org/posts/2020-11-30-interactive-cpp-with-cling/, https://github.com/root-project/cling/, Relaxing the One Definition Rule in Interpreted C++, https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3377555.3377901 (PDF: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/339463915_Relaxing_the_one_definition_rule_in_interpreted_C)

Want to see your mind blown? Check out cling, a (sort of) C and C++ interpreter (it's a REPL). Or the work in progress, live-developed clauf, a real C interpreter.

Cling: https://github.com/root-project/cling

Wanting to just test pure c or c++ functions that are hardware independent -> (solution that I'm using): cling just in time compiler, gives a shell that you can just experiment with C++ expressions

C++ source cannot contain a shebang, but you can make them executable with binfmt-misc, and have the kernel pass them to a C++ interpreter such as Cling upon execution. Pretty much the same as running Python or Bash scripts.