Roadmap

[zlataovce]

General:

• Localization
• Harden the ZIP parser
  • currently, an end-of-central-directory record (EOCDR) is needed to parse the file, however OpenJDK can also read ZIPs with only local file records
• Rework the code/hex tab system to allow for more ways of interpretation + make it easily switchable
  • e.g. Android binary XML, which needs an intermediate translation step to make it back into text

Disassembly:

• Port decompilers/disassemblers to WASM (through TeaVM WASM GC backend - pending on the threading feature, needed for resource fetching callbacks)
  • JASM
  • Vineflower
  • Procyon
  • slicer (pseudocode disassembler) - N/A, it's plenty fast and I don't want to delve into AssemblyScript right now
• Improve decompilation output
  • decreased output quality - currently, decompilers do not have access to the Java standard library, like they would in a real JVM
  • sometimes decompilers fail entirely when they shouldn't (example: the Ethanol Minecraft plugin RAT), perhaps due to a TeaVM quirk, or the aforementioned lack of the runtime classes?
  • patch more decompiler/ASM crashing cases in the verification transformer, reference: Recaf's cafedude

UI/UX:

• Improve the context menu
  • the default browser context menu is disabled app-wide, so maybe replace it with a custom one with basic things like Copy+Paste?
  • add file context menus to tab headers
  • and search results
• Collapse long paths with single-child directories
• Add a centralized configuration place of some sort
  • many checkboxes/radio buttons throughout the app are persisted, but maybe move them into a more centralized tab/dialog?
• Expose disassembler configuration in UI
  • right now, you can only use the scripting API to make (temporary) changes to the disassembler's configuration
• Improve search UX
  • files: the command field on double-shift is not immediately obvious
  • classes: add presets to allow you to search strings/references/declarations/...
    • you can already do this with the Constant pool mode pretty much, but it's not obvious to newbies + you need to know the disassembled syntax from the docs
• Fix the mode switching bug
  • Using setMode('system') breaks things svecosystem/mode-watcher#144
• Replace the Touhou art in the About dialog with something else (for the 100 stars milestone)

[Dani-error]

No remapping functions (like renaming fields and so on)?