I think it depends, in languages which have implicit type coercion I think that would hurt. In languages like swift, where you need to explicitly cast even an I

I think it depends, in languages which have implicit type coercion I think that would hurt. In languages like swift, where you need to explicitly cast even an Int to Double it would be less of a footgun. I'd rather floats have some overloaded operator maybe ~=, for approximate comparison.