In this article, I will be talking about Local variable type inference in Java. Local variable type inference in Java was released as part of Java 10 and it was the highlight feature of Java10.

Now, we’re going to look at the biggest change in Java 10 which was the introduction of local variable type inference. The Java language is sometimes considered to be a bit verbose. The language change we’re going to look at is an attempt to reduce the amount of boilerplate code we have to type in Java.

What is Local variable type Inference?

This feature is all about the variables in Java, whenever we declare a variable on the left-hand side we define a data type with the name of the variable and on the right-hand side, we define the expression to initialize the variable. Since we are talking about local variables here, these variables are limited to method scope i.e we are talking about variables inside the methods.

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