Today we are proud to announce that we are close to finalizing the release of Cheerp 2.6.

Many improvements have been added to Cheerp in the last 8 months (compared to the previous release) by our team, and now it’s all packaged to be used on the C/C++ codebases you have at hand.

In this post, I will go through the new features of Cheerp 2.6, how to use it, and present some benchmarks and live examples.

What’s Cheerp?

Cheerp is a compiler for the Web with a unique memory model that allows to compile C++ to  WebAssembly and JavaScript.

The JavaScript support allows for easy and powerful interoperability with other JavaScript interfaces, like browser APIs, JavaScript libraries and HTML/DOM elements.

Applications compiled with Cheerp are compact and performant (see benchmarks later in the article) and can be executed sandboxed by the client browser locally, without requiring any server components but only serving 2 static files.

Cheerp supports all modern browsers (even Internet Explorer 11 thanks to an opt-in asmjs-based solution), with the possibility of enabling WebAssembly extensions by command line.

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