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Re:JDK 9 modules voted down by EC by loevborg on Tuesday May 09, 2017 @04:01PM (#14303340)
Clojure has a fantastic track record of not breaking existing code. Changing clojure's `#inst` to a different class would probably entail such a backward-incompatible change. There are also still people running Java 1.7.
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Re:JDK 9 modules voted down by EC by timv on Tuesday May 09, 2017 @08:30PM (#14305047)
The argument put forward here (and elsewhere) seems to be that

we want Clojure to gain the advantages of being on the bootstrap classloader in Java 9 while still targeting Java 7

That's pretty unconvincing to me. If you're shipping jars that are intentionally compiled against old JREs then you might not get the benefits of new JVM features. Them's the breaks.

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