Typecasting is the feature which makes C++ more type-safe & may convince you to use it over C. But this is also a more underrated topic when you are a newbie or moving from C background. Here, we will not only see the C++ type casting with example for C developers but we will also cover Why do we need typecasting? & type casting cheat codes for C. developers to remember & employ it easily. There are 5 different types of casts: C-style casts, static_cast, const_cast and reinterpret_cast. All types of manual casting fall under the explicit type conversions category.