Clean Java8 typecasts!

As the title says. I don't really like Java's old-fashioned typecast syntax. It's a dynamic data manipulation, but I have to use a mysterious syntax. Is it derived from C language? This is where I want to write functionally. First of all, from the example. I think there are two ways to write it.

SomeClass instance = (SomeClass) anotherClassInstance;          // 1
SomeClass instance = SomeClass.class.cast(anotherClassInstance) // 2

No. 1 is the one you want to avoid, No. 2 is good, but one line tends to be long. So I thought about this.

public class As {
    public static <T> T of(Object value) {
        return (T) value;
    }
}

If you use this, you can write fairly neatly as shown below.

SomeClass instance = As.of(anotherClass);

If you are using lombok, it looks like this.

val instance = As.<SomeClass>of(anotherClass);

that's all!