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I've been using IDA Pro for over 15 years, for hobbies and my job, and I am thoroughly unimpressed with this offering. I get that Ghidra is eating their lunch,
by daeken 7y ago
I've been using IDA Pro for over 15 years, for hobbies and my job, and I am thoroughly unimpressed with this offering. I get that Ghidra is eating their lunch, but this is a poor attempt to claw back some marketshare. Unless your only job is doing Windows malware analysis, this just isn't going to cut it; no decompiler and single CPU family both kill it.
In any given month, it's likely I'll end up disassembling x86-64, AArch64, and MIPS at the very least; that would cost me nearly $1200/year to do that as a hobbyist using IDA Home, or $0/year with Ghidra. For me, there's huge value in the muscle memory I've built with IDA, and generally I get my job to pay for a license, but the odds of me still using it in 2025 are quickly dwindling to zero. They need to make a big, big change or they're going to lose all of us.