No. Cheat engine scans memory as a program is running, for values of interest to pin (or modify). Allowing you to change behavior.

Ghidra takes a program and unravels the machine code back into assembly and thus, something resembling C code. Allowing you to change behavior.

Cheat Engine doesn’t modify the binary. Ghidra can.

You have a disgusting username

Some of the comment matches in the code search suggest at least portions of the codebase goes back to the very late 90s.

Edit: Wikipedia has a table with 1.0 being 2003 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghidra

Yes, it’s from the late 90s/early 00s, but why is it strange to see Java?

I suppose they should be using rust yeah?

This was discussed when Ghidra was first open sourced. To the best of my knowledge, nobody's found an NSA backdoor in Ghidra.

Without providing any proof that either this or SELinux is backdoored.

Seems like it would be of limited value to backdoor a program like Ghidra. Might be useful in identifying security researchers, except that it's also the kind of program that will often be running on disconnected systems with little valuable data beyond whatever is being disassembled.

Well it’s open source, so you can check in principle. I would imagine there’s some fame and notoriety in discovering that.