[dnomad]

That code is much more scannable. The ability to scan code, to quickly glance at a method or a class and grok it in under 30 seconds is paramount. In large projects I've worked on any code that fails the 30-second test is immediately rejected at code review. Having to hover over every variable to see the types will make scanning such code in an ide a very tedious process. It will make most code review tools (that don't support such functionality) much, much less useful. I fear for the 30-second test and scanning code.

[trixie_]

I find it much easier to scan code that uses var. Type definitions (sometimes incredibly verbose) do not help readability. And knowing the name of the type is not the same as 'knowing' the type. You still need to go to the type's definition to know what it is. Unless you have all the types in your application memorized.

[heavenlyblue]

Modern IDEs automatically prepend shaded type annotations for types with var. I don't believe that's an issue.