What do the “is” and “as” Keywords in Kotlin mean?

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There are two ways of declaring variables in Kotlin.

1. With a type:

[val/var][variable_name]: [type] = [value]

2. Without a type:

[val/var][variable_name] = [value]

It is a good practice to specify types when declaring variables in order to assign correct values. However, most…