Shutdown of the online decompilation service on retdec.com

[s3rvac]

Hello @hugsy,

I am one of the developers behind RetDec. In December 2017, we have open-sourced our decompiler. Its source code is now available on GitHub under the MIT license. RetDec supports all the three major operating systems (Linux, Windows, macOS), which allows users to build the decompiler on their PC and use it offline.

Due to the fact that anyone can now run RetDec on their machine and our lack of resources to keep the online decompilation service running (it has not been updated since 2017), we have decided to shut the service down. We have already stopped the web-based version of the service (see this announcement) and registrations. Soon, we will also stop the API-based decompilation service, which will render your plugin non-functional.

We just wanted to give you a heads up so you can e.g. insert a note into the README. From what we have found, there seems to be a Binary Ninja plugin that uses the offline version of RetDec. We have not evaluated it so we are not sure whether it works or how good it is, but we believe that it could maybe be used as a replacement.

Thank you for your work on the plugin.

[Grazfather]

I missed this, for months.

Thank you for the heads up! We have already pulled retdec into a non-default plugin, but will probably modify it to point to a local mirror if available.