Well, that&#x27;s disappointing. It&#x27;d be nice if C# allowed more succinctness, and eliding type annotations is a major part of that. It feels like those aspects of C# were chosen just to implement LINQ, then forgotten.<p>Also don&#x27;t mistake my tone in my comments. While I am annoyed with the direction MS is taking, C# is still obviously better than most languages and the tooling is a fantastic. I&#x27;m happy it is still being improved, despite detractors saying it&#x27;s too kitchen-sinky or changing too fast.