We will drop support for JDK 1.6 when we believe there is some reason for us to do so (and will assess the tradeoffs when we do). At the current time, I do not think there will be any changes in Clojure 1.9 wrt JDK support.
On Friday, January 22, 2016 at 4:17:26 PM UTC-6, Andy Fingerhut wrote: > > The only person who can say for sure whether there will be Clojure > features added that require newer versions of the JVM is Rich Hickey. Alex > Miller may happen to know his thoughts on this matter, if they have > discussed it. > > I recall seeing a few discussions a few years back in the Clojure Dev > Google group whether JVM 7 features like InvokeDynamic would provide > benefits to Clojure, or not. The results of those discussions sounded like > it was not a strong unconditional "yes", but a bit more nuanced. See [1] > for at least some of those discussions. > > I don't recall if there have been any discussions of whether any features > new in JVM 8 would enable enhancements in Clojure. > > Andy > > [1] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/clojure-dev/invokedynamic > -- 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.
