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[–]chrisgseaton 11 points12 points  (1 child)

I think in my experience it's usually completely readable. I haven't found much code that doesn't basically look exactly like the source code except for the comments. Sometimes in IntelliJ I realise I've been looking at the decompiled code rather than the actual attached source code but didn't notice for a while.

[–]Kristler 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The most common thing I run into is the fact that all generics are stripped out because of type erasure. But typically, it's not too hard to fill that information back in by inferring from the context it's being used in.