REDasm
Dev tools
disassembler
SHOW HN2019
128points
46comments
#359of 2,195 in 2019
Top 17%of 2019 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
5 positive, 9 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 2 critical, out of 16 comments about the project. Thread score +0.15.
Execution: 2 for, 2 againstDesign: 2 for, 0 againstPricing: 1 for, 0 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Clean, IDA-like interface
From 2 comments
Nice! A lot of open source debug tools don't have terribly great UIs and this one looks pretty good. I can't imagine it's as versatile or intelligent as IDA, but on the other…
jchw on HNI like the interface. When I saw "RED" I thought it was developed in Red's system language. The release of Ghidra by the NSA has stole some of my attention. Given your expertise,…
eggy on HN
Objections
Graph creation failed for some functions
From 1 comment
I get "Graph creation failed". I tried to achieve the same thing that can be found on redasm.io. Any ideas why or how to fix? Tried with 2.0 and nightly.
johnisgood on HN
Does not build cleanly on macOS with Clang
From 1 comment
So, I'm on macOS, 64bit, trying to compile with clang, and I get some errors concerning comparisons between size_t and u64 values. I was able to progress a bit by changing some…
dgellow on HN
Requests
Publish macOS binary
From 1 comment
Please publish a binary/dmg. This would be sweet. Thank you for getting this to work on macOS :)
vkaku on HN
Keyboard shortcut documentation
From 1 comment
Any keyboard shortcuts? Can't seem to find any docs on it
RDeckard on HN
Questions
How does it compare to Radare, Medusa or Ghidra?
From 2 comments
Does anyone know why this disassembler might be a good choice over another open source option like Medusa or Radare? I’m very interested in this stuff. I tried getting into IDA…
tacotime on HNI like the interface. When I saw "RED" I thought it was developed in Red's system language. The release of Ghidra by the NSA has stole some of my attention. Given your expertise,…
eggy on HN
Alternatives named
IDA Pro
From 2 comments
Nice! A lot of open source debug tools don't have terribly great UIs and this one looks pretty good. I can't imagine it's as versatile or intelligent as IDA, but on the other…
jchw on HNhttps://www.hex-rays.com/products/ida/licenses.shtml https://www.hex-rays.com/cgi-bin/quote.cgi/products if i'm reading this right, it looks like $1879 for an individual license…
woodrowbarlow on HN
Radare2 / Cutter
From 2 comments
Have you tried Cutter? https://github.com/radareorg/cutter Looks like: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/radareorg/cutter/master/docs/source/images/screenshot.png
johnisgood on HNDoes anyone know why this disassembler might be a good choice over another open source option like Medusa or Radare? I’m very interested in this stuff. I tried getting into IDA…
tacotime on HN
Binary Ninja
From 1 comment
Maybe you really can't afford it, but given the job opportunities this is a bit like saying that you can't afford college. The cost with all 5 decompilers is about $15,000. That…
souprock on HN
Ghidra
From 1 comment
This looks very nice! But posting it a day ahead of NSA's Ghidra unveiling? It's going to be buried in the noise :(
_wmd on HN