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.
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Example of how the declarativeness of Ghidra makes things easy: I ran into an issue with a Win32 stack check function being assumed to clobber the FP stack, breaking dataflow analysis for functions that return floats. Fixed by editing an XML file to add a new calling convention.
(I also filed a bug, because it would be much more convenient if that were a configurable override in the per-function calling convention UI, which requires actual code changes to implement, but the point is I *could* fix it without touching the code and keep reversing.)
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On that note, I find Ghidra's UI experience for editing datatypes, calling conventions, and argument lists to be a lot nicer than IDA's. With IDA I was always stuck trying and failing to come up with a function prototype that was interpreted how I want. Ghidra has a nice editor.
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It’s also extremely hard to write a constructed list whenever the licenses are so damn expensive I can’t even use one legally let alone a up to date one.
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