I’m a casual bystander who has only played with these tools, but I’ve been interested in this field for a long time. Do you think that radare2’s UI is a step forward? I like the Unix-esque command line and how composable everything feels. IDA (and now Ghidra) feel like an IDE, while radare2 feels more like Vim.
I mean having a good UI is great but without the features to back it up, you can’t do anything serious. I tried cutter again a few months ago and went back to ida after an hour of frustration. When handed a binary dump with no executable format or symbols, cutter just chokes while IDA was able to quickly find 90% of functions in memory as well as data xrefs and strings and so on.
I’m sure everything performs well on ELFs built with -O0 -g but in most real world usage, Ida is queen.
Since everything is open source, if ghidra is as good as people say it is, I’m sure people will make better guis for it (and tui) in no time.
Pretty much all of the seriously talented reverse engineers I've met started out hacking video games as teenagers. Also, IDK if you remember me from back in the day, but hi! ^.^
It really is a job for a GUI, but even IDA lets you type commands. You can use Python, or a built-in language that is in the C family, or anything custom that you have attached to the plug-in interface. I would be surprised if one of these tools is lacking such a capability.
