El Capitan (the next version of OSX) is going to be the last to support Apple's 1.6 JDK. But that still means that I'm going to be stuck supporting 1.6 until the vast majority of people have moved on from El Capitan - that's a long way off.
On 8 August 2015 at 20:52, James Elliott <brunch...@gmail.com> wrote: > That sounds like a great project. And I know that in the medium to long > term, even if Clojure continues to support Java 1.6, eventually Apple will > stop supporting their legacy VM, so I just hope Afterglow will catch on > enough by then to convince Cycling ’74 to update their MXJ bridge. ;^) > > -James > > On Aug 8, 2015, at 13:03, Andrew Oberstar <ajobers...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I may end up in the same incomplete, unmaintained state as the other > libraries you've seen, but I'm slowly starting on a Java interop library > "cljj" (https://github.com/ike-tools/ike.cljj). > > - AutoCloseable - As James (Reeves) mentioned, clojure.core/with-open > meets this need. > - NIO2 - Standard Java interop is functional, but can be a pain due to the > heavy use of varargs in NIO2 APIs. I'd like to wrap this in cljj. > - Streams - Can add reduce/transduce support by implementing CollReduce > protocol. There's not a clean way to support the clojure.core/seq function, > that I've seen without wrapping the stream. I plan to support this in cljj. > - Lambdas - I do find these to be a pain, and had a thread on this list a > week or two ago. Right now I'm planning to just have functions/macros to > wrap/define methods implementing java.util.function interfaces. Ideally, > the compiler would support this better. This is the only one that really > would require any change to Clojure itself for better Java 8 support IMO. > > I can understand James' (Elliott) desire to keep Java 6 compatibility for > platforms that are slower to adopt newer JVMs, but I hope that doesn't > become an excuse for Clojure to stay moored to the JVM's past for the > long-term. > > Andrew Oberstar > > On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 7:12 AM Morten Christensen <m...@41concepts.com> > wrote: > >> I am new to Clojure which I am evaluating using Clojure for a Java 8 >> based framework with code in clojure, java and possibly other jvm based >> languages that all need to interoperate. >> >> Clojure has many smart features which I like but there is at least one >> drawback. I could be wrong (?) but it appears to me that feature-wise it is >> limited to a legacy version of java - Java version 6 from 2008. >> >> Happily Clojure tolerate running under Java 7/8 but I have found no >> specific support for Java 7/8 features. In particular there is no support >> for NIO 2.0 or interoperability support for @FunctionalInterface, >> java.lang.AutoCloseable, Method parameter reflection, java.util.stream etc. >> >> I could do my own Clojure wrapper for NIO 2 but it seems to be quite hard >> for that particular tech (other people in the community have tried without >> being 100% complete and could not find anything that is actively >> maintained). All the other stuff seems like something that need in Clojure >> itself along with invokedynamic and other optimizations. >> >> Is there any plans for actively supporting Java 7/8 ? >> >> /Morten >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "Clojure" group. >> To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com >> Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with >> your first post. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Clojure" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Clojure" group. > To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with > your first post. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "Clojure" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/clojure/PjK0kYP1nCs/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Clojure" group. > To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with > your first post. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Clojure" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. 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