Patches welcome! Fact is: the JVM support group is very small. If you feel that this is important, the best way to get what you want to see in Java support, is to work on it.
> On 18 Jul 2019, at 05:53, Darren Duncan <dar...@darrenduncan.net> wrote: > > On 2019-07-17 2:18 p.m., Aleks-Daniel Jakimenko-Aleksejev wrote: >> On behalf of the Rakudo development team, I’m very happy to announce the >> July 2019 release of Rakudo Perl 6 #131. Rakudo is an implementation of >> Perl 6 on the Moar Virtual Machine[^1]. >> New in 2019.07: >> + SPECIAL NOTES: >> + Upcoming releases after this one will have a different changelog >> format >> + Java 9 is now required for JVM backend [ea94966d][8a37b931][b1fac3d6] > > I question this decision. If we're not going to support Java 8, then why not > make Java 11 the minimum dependency instead of Java 9? Java 8 and 11 have > long term support while Java 9 and 10 are already no longer supported. Who > now can use Java 9 but not use Java 11? -- Darren Duncan
