Simplified Java coding. Less garbage. Faster programs. Those are among the key features in the newly released Java 10, which arrived in developers’ hands only six months after the debut of Java ...

This will seem odd for developers coming from Java, where there’s no facility for inferring the variable type. For example, in Listing 7, the compiler correctly infers the type to be integer.

These custom types might be implemented as Data Transfer Objects (DTOs), as JavaBeans, as Value Objects, as Reference Objects, or any other custom type (in Java, typically a class or enum).