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In Memory of Stiver
On October 20, the original author of the Fernflower Java decompiler, Stiver, passed away after a long fight against glioblastoma. Stiver was a German programmer of Russian origin, primarily devel
On October 20, the original author of the Fernflower Java decompiler, Stiver, passed away after a long fight against glioblastoma. While simple, this approach is fragile – any minor semantically equivalent change in generated bytecode made proper decompilation impossible. At the beginning of this project, Stiver knew little about static analysis and compiler design and had to learn a lot, but the effort was worth it.
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