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Its not wrong though
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No, it is wrong. Machine code is not source code.
Never heard of a decompiler I see.
A decompiler doesnt give you access to the comments, variable names, which is an important part of every source code
Meanwhile, AI is having a heyday with it...
https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.09029
What's cool is that you can interpret the var names yourself and rename them whatever you want.
But it is extremely time-consuming. Open source code makes it transparent and easy to read, that's what it is about: transparency