ida can use hexrays to decompile, which is working great. but ofcourse you need some employer to pay for it which is aa pain, no one will pay some 10k for a too

ida can use hexrays to decompile, which is working great. but ofcourse you need some employer to pay for it which is aa pain, no one will pay some 10k for a tool personally. however, free version is very adequate for most things. i would say these both tools ,as well as r2 have their own merits and weak points, and it would be good not to exclude one and take the other as better, but to have them compliment eachother in your arsenal. in the end if you want quality, then manual work is always better than these opinionated tools, and sometimes that is required, so really the tools offer different perspectives / opinions of the same thing, and that is valuable in any case. when you run into the limit of 1 tool ,another might just fill that gap.