Java 11 best practices

[surli]

Thanks for bringing this up

@mleduc

So the questions is, do you agree to allow the use of the var keyword on 14.x+.
If we go for yes, I suggest to do so only while following the style guidelines of openjdk.

I’m not against using it in very specific cases such as loops (cf example given on Local Variable Type Inference: Style Guidelines)
Now I’m -1 to start using it on 14.x: we’re still supporting 13.x and it makes the backward compatibility to LTS more difficult. So I’d be +0 for allowing it on 15.x.