That sounds like a great project. And I know that in the medium to long term,
even if Clojure continues to support Java 1.6, eventually Apple will stop
supporting their legacy VM, so I just hope Afterglow will catch on enough by
then to convince Cycling ’74 to update their MXJ bridge. ;^)
-James
> On Aug 8, 2015, at 13:03, Andrew Oberstar <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I may end up in the same incomplete, unmaintained state as the other
> libraries you've seen, but I'm slowly starting on a Java interop library
> "cljj" (https://github.com/ike-tools/ike.cljj
> <https://github.com/ike-tools/ike.cljj>).
>
> - AutoCloseable - As James (Reeves) mentioned, clojure.core/with-open meets
> this need.
> - NIO2 - Standard Java interop is functional, but can be a pain due to the
> heavy use of varargs in NIO2 APIs. I'd like to wrap this in cljj.
> - Streams - Can add reduce/transduce support by implementing CollReduce
> protocol. There's not a clean way to support the clojure.core/seq function,
> that I've seen without wrapping the stream. I plan to support this in cljj.
> - Lambdas - I do find these to be a pain, and had a thread on this list a
> week or two ago. Right now I'm planning to just have functions/macros to
> wrap/define methods implementing java.util.function interfaces. Ideally, the
> compiler would support this better. This is the only one that really would
> require any change to Clojure itself for better Java 8 support IMO.
>
> I can understand James' (Elliott) desire to keep Java 6 compatibility for
> platforms that are slower to adopt newer JVMs, but I hope that doesn't become
> an excuse for Clojure to stay moored to the JVM's past for the long-term.
>
> Andrew Oberstar
>
> On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 7:12 AM Morten Christensen <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> 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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