While I submitted this, I would like to voice my opinion that I am against "var" in Java. People may ask, "Why should I have to enter in the type if the compiler can infer it for me?" My answer is twofold: 1) You or some other maintainer will need to know what that type is later when reading the code. Of course, "var" is meaningless, requiring you to dig back one or more steps to determine the actual type. 2) You don't actually need to enter in the type, any competent IDE can do it for you.<p>So I'm not sure what we are saving here. When has the time spent typing in code ever been a bottleneck in software development anyways?<p>This is my feeling from having worked extensively in Java as well as languages that support "var": C# and Swift. I feel like my productivity goes down when I have to support code that uses inferred types. There also seems to be a performance hit when compiling code with inferred typing, although that may be circumventable with better compiler tech, who knows.