Those things are indeed obnoxious, but they are truly _Java_ issues rather than static typing issues. For instance, C# will figure that stuff automatically in m

Those things are indeed obnoxious, but they are truly _Java_ issues rather than static typing issues. For instance, C# will figure that stuff automatically in many cases using the _var_ keyword. The Lombok plugin can add something like that into Java, although it's only about 80% as good because of other Java limitations, primarily type erasure.