Are there plans to bump the minimum-supported JDK ...
# compiler
j
Are there plans to bump the minimum-supported JDK of the Kotlin compiler at some point? Newer JDKs cause the IntelliJ
JavaVersion
class to fail and require constant updates. If the compiler required JDK 9 or newer we could use the JDK's built-in version parsing (or, in this case, remove the check completely). https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin/blob/2.2.20/compiler/cli/cli-base/src/org/jetbrains/kotlin/cli/jvm/modules/javaVersionUtils.kt#L11