#wasm

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CheerpJ 4.3 - WebAssembly-based JVM for the browser

Leaning Technologies released CheerpJ 4.3, a WebAssembly-packaged JVM that runs unmodified Java applications — including applets, JNLP applications, and Oracle Forms — in a browser without a plugin. This release adds ergonomic features like in-window file upload and download, long-press-as-hover for Swing, and stability gains, and sets up a major startup-time improvement for 5.0.

Chicory Redline: Native Speed for Wasm on the JVM

Chicory Redline delivers native-speed WebAssembly on the JVM by compiling the Cranelift compiler to Wasm and running it through Chicory itself - native code, bundled in a JAR, with no JNI required. Already shipping in JRuby with a 10x parsing improvement. Early but credible, and the cleanest Panama FFM use case to appear so far.