vineflower mit Homebrew installieren

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Befehle und Aliase

• vineflower

Projektgeschichte

Vineflower's lineage starts with Fernflower, the JetBrains Java decompiler used in IntelliJ IDEA for viewing Java source from class files. The Vineflower organization describes the main decompiler as a fork of Fernflower, and explains that Vineflower is the renamed continuation of Quiltflower by the same team with the same goals.

The rename from Quiltflower to Vineflower was meant to move beyond an identity tied mainly to Minecraft modding and toward a more general Java decompiler. By the mid-2020s, the project was releasing versioned decompiler jars, an IntelliJ plugin, and documentation for command-line and library use.

Adoptionsgeschichte

Vineflower sits in the Java decompiler niche alongside Fernflower, CFR, Procyon, and JD-GUI. Its adoption is tied to developers who need readable decompilation of modern Java bytecode, including records, sealed classes, switch expressions, pattern matching, and later Java language features that older decompilers often render poorly.

Wie es verwendet wird

Vineflower can be run from the command line with a jar, input files or archives, and an optional output destination. It can also be embedded as a library through the org.jetbrains.java.decompiler API shape, and the docs note that dependencies using Fernflower's informal public API can often swap in Vineflower.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

For package and reverse-engineering users, Vineflower matters because it is a packageable, current JVM decompiler with CLI and library modes. It gives build tools, IDE plugins, and inspection workflows a modern alternative to older Fernflower output while preserving enough compatibility for many Fernflower integrations.

Zeitleiste

• 2023: Vineflower documentation site copyright range begins and release history includes 1.9.x-era releases.
• 2024-04-04: Vineflower 1.10.0 adds a plugin API, prototype Kotlin decompiler, and performance improvements.
• 2025-02-25: Vineflower 1.11.0 adds record pattern matching support and bumps the minimum runtime to Java 17.
• 2026-04-29: Vineflower 1.12.0 ships variable-handling, output beautification, Kotlin support, and bug-fix improvements.

Related projects

• Vineflower is directly related to Fernflower and Quiltflower. It is commonly compared with other Java decompilers such as CFR, Procyon, and JD-GUI, and has companion projects including vineflower-intellij.

Quellen

• https://github.com/JetBrains/fernflower
• https://github.com/Vineflower
• https://github.com/Vineflower/vineflower
• https://vineflower.org/
• https://vineflower.org/usage-code/
• https://vineflower.org/usage/
• https://vineflower.org/version-history/