TIL that Java 10 added local-variable type inference, to which I say, about damn time. I indeed decry having to type (and read) Foo<Bar> baz = new Foo<Bar>(),

TIL that Java 10 added local-variable type inference, to which I say, about damn time. I indeed decry having to type (and read) Foo<Bar> baz = new Foo<Bar>(), and no, Foo<Bar> baz = new Foo<>() isn't much better. I tested a project a couple of years ago using Java 8, and the contrast with the magical inferential powers of lambdas was stark. Maybe it's because I've spent so much time in dynamically typed languages, but I see var/auto as absolutely essential to making static typing palatable. I'm a big fan of static typing, but I would be much less so if I had to do it without inference/deduction.