Hector Martin

I know that there are people who cannot tell the difference between IDA and other tools. It is perfectly understandable that they would prefer free solutions (if the result is the same, why pay?) Our tools are used by the elite, as someone put it.

FWIW, I've been using IDA for over 15 years and there's a 0% chance I'd buy IDA Home. I have the IDA interface in my muscle memory, but that license is laughably bad. Ghidra and Hopper may not be as good as IDA, but I'm moving over to them fully.

Don't cut off your nose to spite your face. But seriously, use whatever tool you like and be happy. IDA Home is the most affordable of our licenses, and as the replacement of IDA Starter it is great.

All of your licenses are horrific & overpriced af so either make them affordable again or maybe shut the entire thing down because ghidra is a thousand times better & that’s why I’m swapping.

In what ways is Ghidra better? Genuinely curious what I'm missing here because I thoroughly enjoy IDA despite some annoying shortcomings that are typically associated with anti-RE strategies (so their mishandling makes sense).

Well, IDA only has undo because Ghidra did and Hex-Rays went into panic mode to add that feature after decades of saying it was "too hard". So whether you use Ghidra or not, thank it for that :-) Really though, each one has its pros and cons.

No shit, everything comes with pros and cons. I've yet to see a comprehensive or even somewhat well constructed comparison of the two when I've asked why one is better than the other. I don't use Ghidra, but given this I'm tempted since I can never get a real answer out of users.

Personally, I haven't been doing a ton of RE lately so I can't point at little features, but what I find most interesting in Ghidra's design is the declarative processor definitions. It means you can write a spec for a processor's opcodes, and then it knows how to decompile it.