Alessandro Pignotti

Alessandro Pignotti is the CTO of Leaning Technologies, where he leads the development of CheerpJ, a full OpenJDK distribution for the browser built on WebAssembly, and its sister projects CheerpX and BrowserPod.

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3 November 2026

Alessandro Pignotti

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CheerpJ 5.0: Java 21/25 in the browser, full OpenJDK, and a new WasmGC engine

CheerpJ 5.0 brings Java 21 and 25, a complete OpenJDK build, and an experimental WasmGC execution engine to the browser.

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