Do you have a link where we can read about those issues? > On 21 Jan 2016, at 18:14, Sean Corfield <s...@corfield.org> wrote: > > 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.
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