Unicorn
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
Why people recommend it
“is useful for reverse/security engineering”
“There's a long list of projects using Unicorn at https://www.unicorn-engine.org/showcase/”
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“complete with zero-downtime unicorn handover”
Caveats and dissent
“The problem is that it's not sustainable - QEMU improved so much since the moment of fork and updating the QEMU code in Unicorn is always done manually.”
“Unicorn illustrates one of the issues with his style.”
Often compared with
From the makers not counted in the ranking
“This pair-up is arguably the best set of software tools out there.”
“I do it for my companies projects in addition to dual-licensing under the GPL”
Threads where it came up
- Unicorn – The Ultimate CPU Emulator 4 mentions
- John Carmack on Fabrice Bellard 1 mention
- Capstone – multi-platform, multi-architecture disassembly framework 1 mention
- Things Unix can do atomically 1 mention
- How SQLite is tested 1 mention
Also written as Unicorn Engine, unicorn. Data: unicorn.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 6
“The problem is that it's not sustainable - QEMU improved so much since the moment of fork and updating the QEMU code in Unicorn is always done manually.”
“https://www.unicorn-engine.org/docs/beyond_qemu.html”
“is useful for reverse/security engineering”
“There's a long list of projects using Unicorn at https://www.unicorn-engine.org/showcase/”
“Unicorn illustrates one of the issues with his style.”
“complete with zero-downtime unicorn handover”