Inferring diamond types has been built into the language for _decades_. Your static utility functions save only 2 characters, but will add massive confusion fo

Inferring diamond types has been built into the language for _decades_. Your static utility functions save only 2 characters, but will add massive confusion for other developers. List<String> names = new ArrayList<>(); or even better just use var: var names = new ArrayList<String>(); Those static functions are neither simpler nor cleaner. Don’t do this.