Came here to say the same thing, excellent name. For people who aren't aware, Chicory has long been used (e.g. in Europe during WW2) as a coffee substitute, an

Came here to say the same thing, excellent name. For people who aren't aware, Chicory has long been used (e.g. in Europe during WW2) as a coffee substitute, and Java is another name for coffee, thus Chicory is a substitute for Java. Edit: I originally thought Chicory was a JVM replacement using WebAssembly (e.g. to run Java applets in modern browsers, using WebAssembly). It appears that it's actually a WebAssembly runtime, to run WebAssembly code on the JVM. So the name is a lot less cool than I thought it was.