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

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