Endive: A JVM native WebAssembly runtime

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.

Re: Endive: A JVM native WebAssembly runtime

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Post by jbaiter » Thu, May 28, 2026, 8:20 PM UTC

gavinray wrote: post #2

See also: https://www.graalvm.org/webassembly/docs/

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.

Re: Endive: A JVM native WebAssembly runtime

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Post by apignotti » Thu, May 28, 2026, 8:30 PM UTC

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/

Re: Endive: A JVM native WebAssembly runtime

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Post by spankalee » Thu, May 28, 2026, 8:32 PM UTC

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.

Re: Endive: A JVM native WebAssembly runtime

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Post by syrusakbary » Thu, May 28, 2026, 8:39 PM UTC

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