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Introduced in branch: 
8.6.x
Introduced in version: 
8.6.0
Description: 

The \Drupal class is all about syntactic sugar in bridging our procedural code to our object-orientated code. Only the getInstanceFromDefinition method is likely to be called on \Drupal::classResolver(), so in order to make it more helpful it now allows

\Drupal::classResolver(stdClass::class)

as a shortcut for

\Drupal::classResolver()->getInstanceFromDefinition(stdClass::class)

Calling \Drupal::classResolver() without an argument will still return the class resolver like before.

Before

\Drupal::classResolver()->getInstanceFromDefinition(FieldLayoutBuilder::class)->buildForm($form, $display);

After

\Drupal::classResolver(FieldLayoutBuilder::class)->buildForm($form, $display);

Impacts: 
Module developers