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Blink 1.0 has been officially released.
Blink is an unprivileged userspace virtual machine that supports emulation of x86-64-linux binaries on any POSIX platform and claims to be the smallest x86 Linux emulator.
In total, it's a 220kb dependency-free static binary that implements about 600 x86 instructions and 180 Linux system calls. So Blink is pretty good at running simple command-line programs.
./configure # use `./configure --help | less` for help
make -j8 # build blink and blinkenlights
doas make install # doas is modern sudo
blink program # use `man blink` for help
Blink includes a compact JIT that is in some cases up to 2x faster than Qemu for use cases like ephemeral programs. The reason is Blink's baseline JIT, which uses a printf-style DSL to quickly generate code. This means that Blink has an easy-to-use codebase (only 63,500 lines of ANSI C11 code).
Although Blink is a command-line tool, it also has a TUI interface (called blinkenlights) that supports real-time debugging and visualization of programs.
Here's an example of running the bare-metal Game of Life demo, written in Rust, booting from the BIOS in i8086 mode, booting into long mode, and drawing to the Blinkenlight text-based CGA display.
man blinkenlights
blinkenlights -jmr third_party/gameoflife/gameoflife.bin
# Press CTRL-T several times for Turbo mode
Blink works best with command-line programs, although it also supports emulating GUI applications. Below is a screenshot of Blink running Emacs GUI on Debian Linux:
See Release Notes for details: https://github.com/jart/blink/releases/tag/1.0.0
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