The Decompiler Dilemma: Power, Piracy, and Pedagogy in the Java Ecosystem

What's your stance? Do you use online decompilers daily, or avoid them like the plague? Share your war stories below.

We’ve all been there. You inherit a 15-year-old legacy JAR file. The developer who wrote it left in 2012, taking the source code with them. The documentation is a single, outdated readme.txt that says "Good luck."