# Blink Browser Engine
Blink is a Browser Engine / Rendering Engine / Layout Engine
- 2013, written in C++ as a part of Chromium Project, Official Chromium
- Chromium has a multi-process architecture.
- Chromium has one browser process and N sandboxed renderer processes. Blink runs in a renderer process.
- Blink has one main thread, N worker threads and a couple of internal threads.
- All JavaScript (except workers), DOM, CSS, style and layout calculations run on the main thread.
- What is Chromium Project?
FOSS project started in 2008, C, C++, js, daily release
Source code could be compiled into a web browser.
# Differences from Chrome
- Chrome has more features
- closed source - binaries are licensed as freeware under the Google Chrome Terms of Service
- What is Renering?
- Process of applying paint to the wall