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		woah on Feb 11, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 38% of bugs at Airbnb could have been prevented by... Do you know about type inference?

mcv on Feb 11, 2019 [–]

I do. I thought Java didn't have it, but apparently starting with Java 10, it does.

Type inference isn't always good, though. Scala's type system can be quite horrible in places, although I think the idea is generally good, particularly for local variables.

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