Hi,
I’ve seen here and there that people started to binary-convert/port Intel VST builds to ARM, obviously using AI. This is actually interesting for a bunch a very old, abandoned plugins, in my opinion.
Do you have any information how this actually works? Maybe they are using Reverse engineer anything (REA) + Claude code (and some disassembler tool like Hopper?) then? I actually have no idea.
REA seems to be more to rebuild the source app with different frameworks, but it seems to me the stuff I have seen is really converted on the binary level, providing the same interfaces, so it is even preset compatible… I didn’t try those, seems to be a bit shady, too. For private usage, at least in EU, I think this would be free to do though. Spreading closed source apps is illegal for sure, but unsure if the vendor does not exist anymore, or made the plugins free and stopped development…
I can imagine that a AI with all the running servers in the background actually could convert a compiled binary to ARM instructions… What do you think about it?
In the end, it might be much more easy to simply replace that abandoned plugin with a similar, more recent, even open source plugin…