C# dev here. I use this literally every day, it saves me keystrokes, makes the code much more readable, and I almost never have to stop and think about what typ

C# dev here. I use this literally every day, it saves me keystrokes, makes the code much more readable, and I almost never have to stop and think about what type has been inferred. When I do, a quick hover will tell me that. In the time it takes these "quite clever" academic folks to get funding and conduct research and tell us definitively whether or not this already-established technology is useful to us, millions of developers will have created a shedload of everyday business applications, partly aided by little productivity boosts such as this.