K4ryuu/IDA-VTableExplorer

IDA-VTableExplorer addresses a classic pain point in reverse engineering: the manual reconstruction of C++ object-oriented structures. With 128 stars and 15 forks in under 150 days, it shows strong initial adoption within the niche security researcher community. Its defensibility (5) stems from the deep domain expertise required to handle varying compiler ABIs (MSVC vs GCC) and complex inheritance patterns, which are non-trivial to implement correctly. However, it faces high platform domination risk from Hex-Rays, the developer of IDA Pro. Hex-Rays has been aggressively improving its native C++ analysis and decompiler capabilities; a native implementation by the platform would likely render this plugin obsolete. Compared to historical tools like VirtuClass or ClassyClue, this project is modernized for the IDA 9+ API, giving it a temporary edge. Frontier labs (OpenAI/Anthropic) are unlikely to build this directly, as it is a specialized tool for a small professional user base, though LLM-based binary analysis could eventually solve these problems through general reasoning rather than pattern-matching heuristics.