Java SE 10 (March 2018) introduced type inference for local variables. Java Language Architect Brian Goetz explains the feature.

Type erasure in Java generics programming can cause a variety of problems in your code. Fortunately, there are ways to work around them.

For example, consider how you would create a String object containing the Java string, and then assign its reference to variable language. If String were like other types you would need to specify ...