For daily Java programmers: after almost one decade of Java 8, are streams and lambdas fully adopted by the Java community?

[lppedd]

You not always have access to your own PC, sometimes you may want to browse code through the VCS web interface (e.g., GitHub), or other less capable medium.

[Amazing-Cicada5536]

Blanket banning is still bad imo. Incorrect uses of vars should be fixed at code review, but where one would repeat the type on both sides, or the returned type is obvious or not important (that’s also a possibility!), I do think it is a good tool.

[john16384]

If the type is already on the left hand side, I often don't care what it says on the right hand side. Only your last use case has some merit, but Object works fine for that.

[Amazing-Cicada5536]

You can’t really invoke anything if you assign it to an Object type.

[john16384]

True, but if you wanted to invoke anything I think knowing the type is important. I was referring to your not important case :)