[Roboprog]

One thing I don’t miss is C style Wild West access.

E.g., My coworker grabbed a word from somewhere, slapped a cast on it and proceeded to write into it. Hilarity ensues.

All the burden of explicit compile time checking, but no guarantees that anything is what you said it is by the time your coworker uses it. Of course, no computer Run-time is wasted on silly things like type, bounds or null checking, either.