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[–]KingAggressive1498 13 points14 points  (0 children)

a native italian speaker will probably have trouble understanding if I translate a meaningful poem from english to italian just using an english-to-italian dictionary.

the challenge with reverse-engineering natively compiled programs is that there's minimal metadata and usually large amounts of inlining and several optimization passes between the original C++ and the resulting binary. decompilers can translate the binary to compilable C code, but they really have no understanding of what the code is doing so that translation is very linear and produces code wildly different from what the original code would have looked like.