Stop Using "var"

Wed, 13 May 2026 13:20:05 +0100

var is sold as ergonomics. You type less, the compiler infers the type, the reader gets less visual noise. All true, when the type is obvious from the right-hand side. The trouble is that “obvious” usually means “obvious in my IDE, with my cursor on the line, with IntelliSense ready to fire”. None of that is available in a pull-request diff, on a screenshot pasted into chat, or in your colleague’s head at 21:00 on a Friday.

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Stop Using "var"