[tigershark]

Why on earth? It is resolved by the compiler, there is absolutely no performance difference between using var and explicitly specifying the type.

[ambulancechaser]

undoubtedly that person was talking about LINQ and not var usage

[tigershark]

Undoubtedly he didn't read properly then. The banned feature was var, linq was just heavily frowned upon.

[dbattaglia]

Or possibly confusing "var" and "dynamic"?

[JustSomeNobody]

Yes, LINQ not var.

[btschaegg]

Well, that on the other hand does indeed make sense, depending on the context. The only question there could be if it's a good idea to use a garbage collected language to directly[1] interact with hardware.

[1]: Well, at least directly enough for LINQ performance to be a problem.

[JustSomeNobody]

We're not real time, but we do have some time constraints.

Yes, all this was kicked around and argued about.