Why Kotlin Is Statically Typed?

Kotlin doesn't feature implicit conversions between types - which makes it strongly statically typed.

Is kotlin statically typed?

Kotlin is an open-source statically typed programming language that targets the JVM, Android, JavaScript and Native. It's developed by JetBrains. The project started in 2010 and was open source from very early on.

Why is Kotlin a statically typed language?

This is flexible, and makes it easy to quickly write some code. It also makes it easy to make mistakes, though. If you assign an object of the incorrect type, you only find out during the execution of the program that something doesn't work—you get a runtime error. Kotlin is a statically typed language.

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