It's truly insane that after all of the water under the bridge in the past twenty years with buffer overflows that the default way to access an array in C++ is

It's truly insane that after all of the water under the bridge in the past twenty years with buffer overflows that the default way to access an array in C++ is not bounds-checked. If there is a performance critical loop and you need to avoid the check, there should be a way to do it but for gods sake don't make that the default.