I've only recently gotten into reverse engineering as a hobby recently and have so far just used Ida Free and Ghidra to stuff. From what I've read it seems a lot of people are disappointed on the lack of the decompiler being included with this. How good is Ida's decompiler? I've tried using the Ghidra decompiler, and tbh I'd rather just stick with raw assembly than what normally gets generated from that.
Ghidra and IDA's decompiler are fairly similar in my experience. There are some specific situations when one is better than the other, but overall both do a really good job at recovering the control flow. One thing IDA has that I miss from Ghidra is a way to split/merge variables from the UI. In IDA, I can tell the decompiler that two variables are actually the same, and it will merge them.
