m4b/rdr

rdr is a legacy project (nearly 11 years old) in the Rust ecosystem. While it was an early attempt at cross-platform binary analysis in Rust, it has been largely superseded by more robust and actively maintained libraries, including those by the same author (such as 'goblin'). With only 84 stars over a decade and zero current velocity, it lacks the momentum or community support to compete with modern infrastructure like the 'object' crate or full-featured reverse engineering suites like Ghidra or Binary Ninja. The 'unique symbol map' approach is a common pattern in linkers and loaders rather than a deep technical moat in the current landscape. Its value is primarily historical or as a reference implementation for early Rust systems programming. There is no significant defensibility here; any modern security team would opt for the more mature, audited libraries that have emerged since 2014. The risk from frontier labs is low only because the domain is too specialized and niche for general AI providers to bother building dedicated libraries for, though LLMs are already very capable at the underlying task of binary explanation.