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I know backward compatibility with Java 5 is important for the clojure world... Why is that? (I googled but didn't find anything relevant.)

• djpowell 11y ago
  Since Clojure 1.6, Java 6 is the minimum requirement. I'm sure there is a discussion somewhere, but I expect that there are quite a few people who run Java on commercial J2EE app servers and the like which don't officially support newer JDKs.