alt Hacker NewsSome of those ways come from just plain object initialisers. Which are amazing and sorely needed in Java.
That's why you get `new List<T> { };` Because it could be `new ComplexObject { <fileds and properties> }`.
Same for `new`.
Some come from type inference which Java also has.
That's why you can have `List<T> foo = new List<T>();` and `var foo = new List<T>();`
It's not really "7 ways to assign a new empty List<T>". It's "7 ways to create an object", and Java several of them, too.
> Some of those ways come from just plain object initialisers. Which are amazing and sorely needed in Java.
They really aren't, and they are IMHO an antipattern since they break encapsulation. One might argue that encapsulation doesn't matter with mere data classes, but Java will cater to that use case by introducing withers.