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Mind you, a lot of Java 5 and later features like generics, switch on Strings, Iterable-based for, etc., are syntactic sugar implemented in the compiler, not pa

Mind you, a lot of Java 5 and later features like generics, switch on Strings, Iterable-based for, etc., are syntactic sugar implemented in the compiler, not part of Java bytecode, so those features don't decompile well.

danbruc 9y ago
I am not sure about Java decompilers, but the .NET decompilers I have used all perform pattern matching in order to detect and reverse language features implemented with compiler transformations.
- amyjess 9y ago
  At least the last time I used it (2015), IntelliJ's decompiler didn't.