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Neal gafter has proposed that java language include Constructor Type Inference in order to reduce verbosity. So what was

Map<String,List<Thing>> map = new HashMap<String,List<Thing>>();

looks like:

Map<String,List<Thing>> map = new HashMap<>();

Though there is an alternate proposal to deduce the LHS type instead, like:

map := new HashMap<String,List<Thing>>();

I find Neal's proposal more appealing and more natural to java. It feels so Java, that I have already used it thrice since morning only to be surprised by IDEA's warnings! So, if anyone is counting votes, +1 from me.