Comment by ohnoesjmr
4 years ago
Decompiler space probably has a few tens of millions in revenue yearly, yet writing a good decompiler is quite a lot of engineering effort, and you are not going to spend tons of money and effort to capture a measly 10m market, you'll rather be the next uber type thing that targets a much bigger market.
Hence HexRay can get away with not doing much and just collecting license fees from existing customers yearly, as there isn't a better alternative anyway.
One thing Hex-Rays has that Ghidra doesn't (and cannot) is amazing support. Back when I had a license at work, I could report bugs and literally get a fixed binary back a couple of hours later.
They're both amazing, they're both quirky, and they're both buggy. But one is free and the other has its support. Pick which one matters to you :-)
It's been a while since I needed to do any serious reverse engineering work, but I do remember IDA pro having support for a range of obscure CPUs, not sure how ghidra compares on that front these days.
Ghidra still mostly relies on community plugins for obscure platform support. It's ~OK but less than ideal.
Ghidra outstrips IDA Pro in the number of architectures it supports.