A program is nothing without data. Let's find out how to declare a variable in Kotlin.
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There are two ways to declare a variable in Kotlin:
1. Using the "val" keyword
// constant, immutable, read-only & final
val city: String = "Paris"
Basically once we declare it we can't change it.
city = "Rome" // will throw an error
2. Using the "var" keyword
// mutable variable
var country: String = "Italy"
Now we can re-use the same variable. We can mutate the object.
country = "France"
Kotlin is smart and can guess the type for a declared variable. I think this will make you a negligent programmer in the long run.
// type inference
var language = "Java"
// the compiler will know it's String
Once the type is established we can't change it
language = 12 // will throw an error
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