New Java 10 Language Feature: Local-Variable Type Inference (var)!

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Per the rolling release cycle promise, JDK 10 is schedule to be released on March 20th, 2018.

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While it is not expected to be a major feature release, so far, it includes a feature that I find invaluable for clearing up java verbosity: Local-Variable Type Inference!

Now we can have code like this! :

var x = new HashMap<String,Integer>();
//inferred to be HashMap<String,Integer>