[tialaramex]

> People choose C++ because it's a flexible language that lets you do whatever you want.

You went on a bit too long. C++ lets you do whatever. Whether you wanted that is not its concern. That's handily illustrated in Matt Godbolt's talk - you provided a floating point value but that's inappropriate? Whatever. Negative values for unsigned? Whatever.

This has terrible ergonomics and the consequences were entirely predictable.

[mgaunard]

It's just strong typing. You can do it in C++ too.