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DEX → Java decompiler in Rust — fast, progressive analysis, bilingual CLI

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GITHUB · launched Sep 18, 2026 · 261 upvotes (top 3%) · 0 views

Niche: reverse engineering tools · 102 launches, 5 in the last 7 days ▼ -29% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags

  • Horizontal
  • Dev tools
  • Developer
  • Not AI
  • Hobby / open-source project
  • android
  • decompiler
  • dex
  • reverse-engineering
  • rust

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Could you build this?

No Developing a Dalvik Executable (DEX) to Java decompiler from scratch in Rust requires compiler theory, abstract interpretation, and bytecode-to-source decompilation algorithms.

What it would actually take: Decompilers require a multi-stage architecture: binary format parsing (DEX spec), control-flow graph (CFG) reconstruction, static single assignment (SSA) transformation, type inference, structured loop/condition recovery, and source code emission. This requires specialized compilers and reverse-engineering domain knowledge implemented in Rust.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 3959 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #121 of 3960 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 322 days after the earliest competitor.

  • rdx · github · 2026-09-21 · 57 upvotes · similarity 0.80
  • rok · github · 2026-10-25 · 15 upvotes · similarity 0.69
  • ssx3-decomp · github · 2026-10-15 · 15 upvotes · similarity 0.68
  • blazing-rust · github · 2026-11-07 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.67
  • rea-rust · github · 2026-10-23 · 68 upvotes · similarity 0.67
  • jpm · hn · 2026-10-04 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.65
  • dx-rust · github · 2026-10-28 · 42 upvotes · similarity 0.65
  • Rusdantic · hn · 2026-03-30 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.65

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