[brotherofsteel]

Unnecessary verbosity is not your friend at read time. Unnecessary verbosity is also not your friend at write time. Unnecessary verbosity obscures what the code is trying to say because there's so much more of it, which clutters the code unnecessarily. Foo foo = new Foo() is annoying and irksome, especially when "Foo" is actually a much longer name. Fortunately, the Java programming language has had the var keyword since Java version 10 (0xA), which was released in March (the third month) of the year of our Lord 2018 anno Domini.

That being said, I like Java. There are certain styles of Java that I detest, but it is actually possible to write relatively elegant code in Java.