Colin Fleming wrote on Wednesday, January 20, 2016 at 6:33 PM: I feel like a broken record here, but I'd like to protest again at this characterisation. No-one cares more than me about getting off Java 6, but I have no choice. Oracle refuse to fix serious Swing/AWT bugs in later versions of the JVM, so many IntelliJ (and thus Cursive) users have no choice but to use it.
And as another data point from another language community: The Frege project (a Haskell for the JVM) is running into problems with the Java 8 compiler (producing invalid JVM bytecode or just plain ol’ crashing), which is making it impossible to move from Java 7 to Java 8. Given Java 9 builds are starting to appear, the likelihood of these Java 8 bugs getting fixed is close to zero, and Java 9 is far too "bleeding edge" to force even the contributors to the Frege project to jump to it. Which means Frege is stuck with Java 7 at this point. I’ve defended Clojure’s continued support for Java 6 on the grounds that it makes new versions of Clojure accessible to companies that are still on older versions of the JVM. As Colin says, and as seen in the Frege project, there are many valid reasons why older versions of the JVM continue to be used. Just because you are not affected by JVM issues doesn’t mean that other people’s reasons for supporting older versions are invalid! Sean Corfield -- (904) 302-SEAN An Architect's View -- http://corfield.org/ "If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive." -- Margaret Atwood -- 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.
