> recover things like most likely variable names This is already being researched! See http://jsnice.org/ http://jsnice.org/ for recovering variable names from

> recover things like most likely variable names This is already being researched! See http://jsnice.org/ http://jsnice.org/ for recovering variable names from minified javascript. I remember testing it by coding a binary search with single letter variable names. It managed to rename them to the more canonical "lo"/"mid"/"hi" names just by recognizing that the code pattern is typically used for a binary search.