Endive: A JVM native WebAssembly runtime

9 comments

• apignotti 1 hour ago
  Shameless plug: we solved the opposite problem, running any Java application in the browser via WebAssembly: https://labs.leaningtech.com/blog/cheerpj-4.3

  And yes, it does run Minecraft as well :-) https://browsercraft.cheerpj.com/
• hectaman 19 minutes ago
  On the CNCF wasmCloud Community call this week we played with this: - a demonstration of Endive - implemented CNCF wasmCloud host - Integrated into Vert.x as an example

  And discussed the roadmap.

  Blogpost and video here: https://blog.cosmonic.com/engineering/2026-05-26-diving-into...
• syrusakbary 52 minutes ago
  This is a fork of Chicory, a bit more context of the relationship between the projects can be found here:

  https://github.com/dylibso/chicory/issues/1296
• spankalee 58 minutes ago
  It will be really great if this becomes a second popular runtime with both GC and WASI component model support. Wasmtime being the only runtime with that combo is a bit concerning. Node supporting the component model will help a lot too.
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  • asibahi 26 minutes ago
    The component model is still in phase 1 (standardization is phase 5) and the Bytecode Alliance are its sponsors and the ones pushing it into the ecosystem with wasmtime.
• phickey 1 hour ago
  Lots of context for this project on the Bytecode Alliance blog: https://bytecodealliance.org/articles/endive-and-the-next-ch...
• zcw100 1 hour ago
  Is this being handed over to the Bytecode Alliance or is this a hard fork and will diverge from Chicory? It isn't clear from the announcement but I suspect the former.
• pjmlp 2 hours ago
  I guess we can come full circle and eventualy port it to Android Java.
• MattCruikshank 1 hour ago
  If you haven't seen The Birth & Death of JavaScript, it's well worth a watch:

  https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...
• gavinray 3 hours ago
  See also: https://www.graalvm.org/webassembly/docs/
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  • jbaiter 1 hour ago
    Yeah, this was the first thing that came to mind, how does this compare to the Truffle WASM implementation. The Graal Polyglot API is pretty incredible, we've been using it for a JavaScript/Python plugin system in a JVM app, and it's been amazing.