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All valid points of which none are really standardized, very much up to the preference of the developer, however i was focusing specifically on the windows version.

On the point of symbols - Obviously really helpful for debugging, but as this is written in C# which itself compiled to IL, all you need is some basic knowledge of  the .net eco system and more important can read IL, then you have access to a very rough version of code - Being able to write is ASM and emit is also a bonus , also being a member of the Ruby on Rails project where we wrote our own IL interpreter has massively helped me here.

Again I am an edge case, I have the skills and capability to do this kind of thing without minimal brain power, but i will always push back on any developer that uses base64 for any form of encryption or obfuscation of data as its an encoding standing that can easily be reversed.