Well, that's disappointing. It'd be nice if C# allowed more succinctness, and eliding type annotations is a major part of that. It feels like those aspects of C

Well, that's disappointing. It'd be nice if C# allowed more succinctness, and eliding type annotations is a major part of that. It feels like those aspects of C# were chosen just to implement LINQ, then forgotten. Also don't mistake my tone in my comments. While I am annoyed with the direction MS is taking, C# is still obviously better than most languages and the tooling is a fantastic. I'm happy it is still being improved, despite detractors saying it's too kitchen-sinky or changing too fast.