N46: Blit (#1379)

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 ## Library Updates
 
+### [blit]
+
+![blit example: blitting the full sprite](blit.png)
+
+[blit] is a GPL licensed library for quickly blitting 2D images on a pixel buffer.
+After a long stale period development has resumed quite a bit
+in the last couple of months.
+
+The previous big release, [v0.7.0][blit-0-7], saw a big improvement in performance
+and API ergonomics. It also introduced interactive WebAssembly examples
+[which can be seen here][blit-web-show].
+
+The latest big release, [v0.8.0][blit-0-8], is a complete rewrite of the quite old
+and admittendly outdated API. A focus has been put on both ergonomics and performance.
+There's now many ways of drawing a subsection, tiling, masking and creating
+repeating slices of an image on a pixel buffer.
+
+[blit]: https://github.com/tversteeg/blit
+[blit-0-7]: https://github.com/tversteeg/blit/releases/tag/v0.7.0
+[blit-0-8]: https://github.com/tversteeg/blit/releases/tag/v0.8.0
+[blit-web-show]: https://tversteeg.nl/blit/showcase
+
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