Why is it so easy to decompile .NET IL code?

Question

Why is it so easy to decompile .NET IL-code into source code, compared to decompiling native x86 binaries? (Reflector produces quite good source code most of the time, while dec

Answer 1

Extending Brian's correct answer

If you think all IL is easily decompilable, I suggest writing a non-trivial F# program and attempting to decompile that code. F# does a lot of code transformations and hence has a very poor mapping from the actual emitted IL and the original code base. IMHO, it is significantly more difficult to look at decompiled F# code and get back the original program than it is for C# or VB.Net.